Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Channing uses literary elements and techniques to develop a complex portrayal of the speaker’s experience of this natural setting.

In your response you should do the following:
Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.
Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.
Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.
Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.
On your bare rocks, O barren moors,
On your bare rocks I love to lie,—
They stand like crags upon the shores,
Or clouds upon a placid sky.
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5 Across those spaces desolate,
The fox pursues his lonely way,
Those solitudes can fairly sate1
The passage of my loneliest day.
Like desert Islands far at sea
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10 Where not a ship can ever land,
Those dim uncertainties to me,
For something veritable stand.
A serious place distinct from all
Which busy Life delights to feel,
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15 I stand in this deserted hall,
And thus the wounds of time conceal.
No friend’s cold eye, or sad delay,
Shall vex me now where not a sound
Falls on the ear, and every day
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20 Is soft as silence most profound.
No more upon these distant wolds2
The agitating world can come,
A single pensive thought upholds
The arches of this dreamy home.
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25 Within the sky above, one thought
Replies to you, O barren moors!
Between, I stand, a creature taught
To stand between two silent floors.