He is expecting to freeze, but in the end, wolves find him, and he is about to be attacked and eaten as the story ends. This of course seems extremely harsh by us in our world of social security and medicare and welfare, etc. Post a Comment. The poet in Ode To A Nightingale is an escapist. He escapes through imagination.
I am as a last year's leaf, clinging lightly to the stem. The first breath that blows, and I fall. My voice is become like an old woman's. My eyes no longer show me the way of my feet, and my feet are heavy, and I am tired.
It is well. He accepts that he is too old to travel. His answer gives us the information that he is conscious about his state of health. He still sees himself better than an old woman even though he will die just in minutes.
When we look at the environment of old Koskoosh, London also gives us some sense of the struggle between man and nature. The environment around him consists of the fire, some sticks to feed the fire and the nature.
Hi Jessica, I really liked this story. I think London did a great job in telling the story of how a different culture views life and death. I thought that it was especially important how he not only told of the tale of the moose, but he also told the tale of his friend, Zing-ha or at least part of the tale.
I thought that the tale of how he and his friend went out to hunt and then followed the path of the moose and wolves was significant, but I also thought the tale of Zing-ha's death was also important. It was nature reclaiming life, even though that life was taken at a young age. I also really liked that London brought the story full circle with the wolves coming in at the end to stay with the Koskoosh until the end, just like they did in the tale of the moose.
It was rather fitting as nature has a tendency to reclaim life. I liked both your post and AMy's comment, Jessica, and can't add anything to them. I love your point, and your direct compartision of the Moose to Koskoosh. Perhaps Koskoosh's acceptance of death symbolizes that difference between the instincts of animals and the logic of some humans. This theory is of course flawed, because almost anyone would have waited willing for death.
How did Zing-Ha die? He was blind, so he depended on his acute hearing to determine what was going on around him. He wanted to hear this tribe as they were packing up camp. Why was Koskoosh listening greedily? His granddaughter and son leave him a small amount of firewood as a final act of compassion, preparing him for his remaining time left. Old Koskoosh prepares for his death, reminiscing over his past memories and contemplating life. The three angles we chose were that of the Chief himself, his son, and his tribe.
What does Koskoosh hear and how does he respond?
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