Expert answer:Comparing “The Calypso Borealis” and “I Wand

Solved by verified expert:How have these two authors expressed their relationships with nature?Required a minimum of 5 paragraphs.Scoring ElementsAdvancedMeets ExpectationsApproaches ExpectationsNot Yet2015105FocusAddresses all aspects of prompt appropriately and maintains a strongly developed focus.Addresses prompt appropriately and maintains a clear, steady focus.Addresses prompt appropriately, but with a weak or uneven focus.Attempts to address prompt, but lacks focus or is off-task.2015105Controlling IdeaEstablishes a strong controlling idea with a clear purpose maintained throughout the response.Establishes a controlling idea with a clear purpose maintained throughout the response.Establishes a controlling idea with a general purpose.Attempts to establish a controlling idea, but lacks a clear purpose.40353025Reading/ ResearchAccurately presents information relevant to all parts of the prompt with effective selection of sources and details from reading materials.Presents information from reading materials relevant to the prompt with accuracy and sufficient detail.Presents information from reading materials relevant to the purpose of the prompt with minor lapses in accuracy or completeness.Attempts to present information in response to the prompt, but lacks connections or relevance to the purpose of the prompt.40353025DevelopmentPresents thorough and detailed information to strongly support the focus and controlling idea.Presents appropriate and sufficient details to support the focus and controlling idea.Presents appropriate details to support the focus and controlling idea.Attempts to provide details in response to the prompt, including retelling, but lacks sufficient development or relevancy.2015105OrganizationMaintains an organizational structure that intentionally and effectively enhances the presentation of information as required by the specific prompt.Uses an appropriate organizational structure to address the specific requirements of the prompt, with some lapses in coherence or awkward use of the organizational structureUses an appropriate organizational structure to address the specific requirements of the prompt, with some lapses in coherence or awkward use of the organizational structure.Attempts to organize ideas, but lacks control of structure.2015105ConventionsDemonstrates and maintains a well-developed command of standard English conventions and cohesion, with few errors. Response includes language and tone consistently appropriate to the audience, purpose, and specific requirements of the prompt. Consistently cites sources using an appropriate format.Demonstrates a command of standard English conventions and cohesion, with few errors. Response includes language and tone appropriate to the audience, purpose, and specific requirements of the prompt. Cites sources using an appropriate format with only minor errors.Demonstrates an uneven command of standard English conventions and cohesion. Uses language and tone with some inaccurate, inappropriate, or uneven features. Inconsistently cites sources.Attempts to demonstrate standard English conventions, but lacks cohesion and control of grammar, usage, and mechanics. Sources are used without citation.40353025Content UnderstandingIntegrates relevant and accurate disciplinary content with thorough explanations that demonstrate in-depth understanding.Accurately presents disciplinary content relevant to the prompt with sufficient explanations that demonstrate understanding.Briefly notes disciplinary content relevant to the prompt; shows basic or uneven understanding of content; minor errors in explanation.Attempts to include disciplinary content in explanations, but understanding of content is weak; content is irrelevant, inappropriate, or inaccurate.Writing prompts:The Calypso BorealisAfter earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law’s farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods, glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion.The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis (the HIder of the North). I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one’s way through. Entering one of these great tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps one morning,holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey’s nest, or eagle’s, or Indian’s in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt.But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower. No other bloom was near it, for the bog a short distance below the surface was still frozen, and the water was ice cold. It seemed the most spiritual of all the flower people I had ever met. I sat down beside it and fairly cried for joy.It seems wonderful that so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts. This Calypso meeting happened some forty-five years ago, and it was more memorable and impressive than any of my meetings with human beings excepting, perhaps, Emerson and one or two others. When I was leaving the University, Professor J.D. Butler said, “John, I would like to know what becomes o you, and I wish you would write me, say once a year, so I may keep you in sight. ” I wrote to the Professor, telling him about this meeting with Calypso, and he sent the letter to an Eastern newspaper [The Boston Recorder] with some comments of his own. These, as far as I know, were the first of my words that appeared in print.How long I sat beside Calypso I don’t know. Hunger and weariness vanished, and only after the sun was low in the west I plashed on through the swamp, strong and exhilarated as if never more to feel any mortal care. At length I saw maple woods on a hill and found a log house. I was gladly received. “Where ha ye come fra? The swamp, that awfu’ swamp. What were ye doin’ there?” etc. “Mony a puir body has been lost in that muckle, cauld, dreary bog and never been found.” When I told her I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, “It’s god’s mercy ye ever got out.”Oftentimes I had to sleep without blankets, and sometimes without supper, but usually I had no great difficulty in finding a loaf of bread here and there at the houses of the farmer settlers in the widely scattered clearings. With one of these large backwoods loaves I was able to wander many a long wild fertile mile in the forests and bogs, free as the winds, gathering plants, and glorying in God’s abounding inexhaustible spiritual beauty bread. Storms, thunderclouds, winds in the woods – were welcomed as friends.I Wandered Lonley as a Cloud:I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

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