Analysis on my wood
Analysis on “My wood”
By this essay, Forster described a series of his associations and psychological changes after buying a wood. He used lively and satirical vocabularies to detail the extent and trends of his psychological changes.
When the author wrote about the effects of owning things on people, the focus was intentionally put on the psychological effects.
Owning property is not like what people image, enabling people feel easy, contented, leisure, and open.
Instead, “it (my wood) makes me feel heavy”, and “makes you think twice before you accept an invitation to dinner or go for a bathe in the Jordan”;
Also, owning property make people become greedy and arrogant. To the author, “something seemed grossly amiss here, something that would not have occurred had the wood been larger”.
Again, owning property make people have an impulse to do something with odd desires. But, “impulses are pretentious and empty”. So, people got things and lose things. "Possession is one with loss."
Finally, owning property makes people selfish, closed, do not want people that own contaminated property.
Blackberries are not plentiful in this meager grove, but they are easily seen from the public footpath which traverses it, and all too easily gathered. Foxgloves, too--people will pull up the foxgloves, and ladies of an educational tendency even grub for toadstools to show them on the Monday in class. Other ladies, less educated, roll down the bracken in the arms of their gentlemen friends. There is paper, there are tins. Pray, does my wood belong to me or doesn't it? And, if it does, should I not own it best by allowing no one else to walk there? There is a wood near Lyme Regis, also cursed by a public footpath, where the owner has not hesitated on this point. He has built high stone walls each side of the path, and has spanned it by bridges, so that the public circulate like termites while he gorges on the blackberries unseen. He really does own his wood, this able
By this essay, Forster described a series of his associations and psychological changes after buying a wood. He used lively and satirical vocabularies to detail the extent and trends of his psychological changes.
When the author wrote about the effects of owning things on people, the focus was intentionally put on the psychological effects.
Owning property is not like what people image, enabling people feel easy, contented, leisure, and open.
Instead, “it (my wood) makes me feel heavy”, and “makes you think twice before you accept an invitation to dinner or go for a bathe in the Jordan”;
Also, owning property make people become greedy and arrogant. To the author, “something seemed grossly amiss here, something that would not have occurred had the wood been larger”.
Again, owning property make people have an impulse to do something with odd desires. But, “impulses are pretentious and empty”. So, people got things and lose things. "Possession is one with loss."
Finally, owning property makes people selfish, closed, do not want people that own contaminated property.
Blackberries are not plentiful in this meager grove, but they are easily seen from the public footpath which traverses it, and all too easily gathered. Foxgloves, too--people will pull up the foxgloves, and ladies of an educational tendency even grub for toadstools to show them on the Monday in class. Other ladies, less educated, roll down the bracken in the arms of their gentlemen friends. There is paper, there are tins. Pray, does my wood belong to me or doesn't it? And, if it does, should I not own it best by allowing no one else to walk there? There is a wood near Lyme Regis, also cursed by a public footpath, where the owner has not hesitated on this point. He has built high stone walls each side of the path, and has spanned it by bridges, so that the public circulate like termites while he gorges on the blackberries unseen. He really does own his wood, this able