Response to Friday

After our class forum, I have found that many students had similar interpretations of the themes from various poems in Turtle Island. Many of the poems directly relate to the environment. There are poems about the past, present, and future of the natural world. It was also brought to my attention that Snyder does not leave his questions unanswered. For every criticism he makes he offers a way to change things. However controversial his ideas may be I find this to be admirable. Too many people criticize without offering suggestions on how something could be improved. Snyder doesn’t do this, and this shows that he wanted to take an active role in the way the environment developed.