“Hubris at Zunzal” by Rodney Jones and “The Problem of Describing Trees” address the topic of language. The written language— when you really think about it— is a very strange concept.
In Hass’s poem he sneakily makes his argument by exploiting people who try and make language deeper, prettier, and more meaningful. When in actuality they just stomp on all of those things, making language loose it simplistic beauty.
In Rodney’s poem he commends the written language for being created without it our thoughts, quite literally would be washed away and irretrievable. “ No image like the image of language.” This quote embodies the need and beauty of descriptive language. These poems both center around language. And prove two different points. Balancing out the two extremes. Without it we are lost, with it we are over zealous with its use and abuse its simplistic nature by making it overly complicated.
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