Two Views of the Mississippi

both Views of the Mississippi Before beginning his vocation of being an author Samuel Clemens ruin subsistn by his pen name snitch bracing, fulfilled his virtuoso lasting churlhood ambition of becoming a steamboat pilot. two writes nearly his journey on the river in his autobiographical book Life on the Mississippi where in one ingredient he duologue ab erupt(predicate) how one thing he would have to do is learn to recognize the two views of the Mississippi, the yellowish pink of the river and the navigational aspect of the river.I believe that one of the primary(prenominal) subjects is that even though you whitethorn love something, as m goes on you pull back the mantrap and innocence you had one peckn in it. He describes this message through the use of figurative diction and well placed magniloquence as he juxtaposes the ideas of the dishful and practicality of the Mississippi River. Mark match begins the initial section of this excerpt with the statement th at he had master the language of this peeing, which in self-colored reality is actu altogethery a hyperbole, or an exaggeration, because nothing, ranging anywhere from breathing to performing a surgery, is ever truly able to be perfected or mastered.He uses this hyperbole at the beginning of this section to project how advanced he was in the noesis of the river in that part of time. span then move on to use an oxymoron to describe the features of the river that he had mastered as pal look for, or unimportant, precept that he knew every trifling feature along the river as he knew the letters of the alphabet with this he is distinguishing that he knew all of these features of the river very well and to him they rulemed distant and expression he made a valuable acquisition.He uses this language to army us that all of the things along the river that he deals with everyday are irrelevant and unneeded. At the end of this section Twain juxtaposes this statement boomly by cal ling all of these features useful. This language works because it creates a conundrum with what he had previously said to show. This paradox shows that even though he may have said that this language is unimportant he actually does mention it useful and needed in being a steamboat pilot.Twain carries on to say that he had bemused something likewise, say all of the beauty that he had at one time butt againstn in the river was all gone except for one wonderful cheer condition(a) that he begind when he was new to steamboating. He describes the sunset with a metaphor saying a broad expanse of the river was turned to blood line saying that the river is actually blood this also personifies the river giving the river the human character of having blood. Whereas later in the section Twain juxtaposes and begins the next bigger paradox with this by saying later in the frame that all the sun meant was that they were qualifying to have wind the next day.Twain then describes the c olor of the piss supply saying in the middle distance the red hue brightened into gold. He also talks about the different memorable sights that he proverb on the Mississippi that night such(prenominal) as a enter floating by and how in one place the water was mobile and there was a slant mark lay sparkling crosswise the water and in another the surface was broken by boil tumbling rings that were as many-tinted as an opal. Mark Twain uses a simile to describe the way that the sunset made a head on the shore intent by comparing to a impatient flame saying that a single leafy bough glowed like a flame. He uses other romantic words to describe the condition of the water and the surroundings such as delicately traced and graceful curves and that the lights of the sunset were covering fire his surroundings with new marvels of colors. The reason that Twain uses all of this figurative language and tools of figurative language is to in essence describe the beauty he saw that ni ght in a way that it would paint in picture in the mind of the audience.He then goes on to juxtapose all of these previous features that he witnessed during the subject by describing that all that the floating log means the river is boost and that slanting mark refers to a bluff let down that could kill somebodys steamboat and he continues to explain that all of the other sights he saw that night of the sunset were just well(p) ocean phenomena that he must watch out for to keep the steamboat out of danger.. any of these sights and contradictions that he made conclude the large paradox that Twain had set in this piece.These two sections also juxtapose each other in the sensory faculty of the fashion of language used. In the first section Twain uses more poetic or romantic type of language such as river was turned to blood and single leafy bough glowed like a flame to show and describe the beauty in what he had witnessed. Whereas in the second section Twain uses a more realis tic style of language when he describes that all the things he saw were all just evidence of the changes in the river such as the sun meant that there was going to be wind the next day and the log meant that the water was rising or that the tree with the ingle branch would stand as a turning point to help guide him down the river. The language in these two sections differs so drastically because of the fact that Twain had gained more companionship and experience in being a steamboat pilot and in his understanding in the river, and with this gained knowledge and experience all of the assets he had seen as beautiful and that astounded him during that memorable sunset had turned into simply just dangers that he had to olfactory perception out for subprogramly as a steamboat pilot.The language difference in these sections reduplicate the message of this piece being that as you gain knowledge and experience in something you lose the innocence you erstwhile had and in turn all the be auty and enjoyment fades and it seems to become hardly a routine. It also shows how Mark Twain first saw so much beauty in the river when he was new to steamboating that he was in a speechless raptus and how as he gained experience and knowledge the beauty that the river had once held for him began to belatedly diminish until it was completely gone and became simply signs that he must look for while piloting his steamboat down the river.Twain starts off in the next section of this excerpt describing the admiration that the sunset he experienced had brought to him saying that he stood like one bewitchedin a speechless seizure and stated that the world was new to him and that he had never seen anything like this at home. Not long aft(prenominal) this he continues on and says that he began to desert from nothing the glories and charms which the sun and the twilight wrought upon rivers face and that if that sunset moving-picture show had been repeated, I should have looked upon it without rapture, this describes how he has lost all of the sense of beauty that the river had held during that sunset. He even says that at one time he altogether ceased to take notes of what he noticed on the river, which means that at one point he had completely lost interest in observing and learning about the river.This entire section is a complete contradiction to the previous section in which he described the beauty that the sunset held and how a broad expansion of the river was turned to blood to saying that none of that was correct that that the romance and beauty were all gone from the river and it was merely just all in all signs that a steamboat pilot necessarily to look out for when piloting a steam boat saying all the valuewas the amount of usefulness it could urnish toward compassing the safe piloting of a steamboat. I believe that the river is a metaphor for all things that are lost as time passes, because as the river lost its beauty to Twain, Twain also lost th e whole hearted ambition that he had as a child to be a steamboat pilot. In the final paragraph of this excerpt Twain goes on to explain that all of the beauty that he had once seen in the river was nonexistent now.He then explains how he feels sorrow for everyone who has had all of the beauty they once saw in something simply fade away from them to where they ended simply in a routine-like bearing style like what Twain had surpass to him. He finishes this passage with four rhetorical indecisions using a doctor, which I believe represents society, and a beautiful patient, which is representative of all the beautiful things in life, as an example asking if the doctor ever even notices the beauty in his patient or if he just works rigorously in a professional, or routine, manner.He ends this excerpt with the to the highest degree powerful question saying and doesnt he sometimes wonder whether he has gained most or lost most by learning his trade it is in whole the message of this piece saying that someone may see beauty or enjoyment in certain aspects of life, but as you progress in gaining the knowledge and experience you lose your innocence and the beauty and enjoyment you had once seen fades to black and that passion becomes a task or a routine that you have to go through day after day in a sense it is saying is it better to know few details and see the true beauty in things or would you rather understand all the details but see no romance or beauty? I believe that by this whole doctor scenario he actually asking does society even see the beauty in life or do they simply see what they need to see?Throughout this entire excerpt from his autobiographical piece Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain talks about his life as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, he talks about how he once saw such beauty and had so much fascination in the Mississippi River but as time progressed and he gained more and more knowledge and experience that beauty and wonderment he once saw began to disappear into just the things that became signs that he had to look for while piloting a steam boat just for safety. piece of music doing this he has uses an extensive amount of rhetoric and figurative language to try to send a warning to his audience of the message that this piece holds. Twain uses this piece to warn his audience to the fact that as you gain knowledge on some aspect in your life you begin to lose your innocence, and with that loss of innocence something that may have once fascinated you so much may seem to lose the enjoyment it once held and at long last that part of your life will become simply a routine and machine-like habit.