Beauty of the Prairie
In My Antonia, Jim respects the prairie. He has reverence for its vastness whereas the narrator of “A Wagner Matinee” felt distain towards the prairie. Jim recalls a time when, “we were so deep in the grass that we could see nothing but the blue sky over us and the gold tree in front of us. It was wonderfully pleasant.” He finds the unvarying nature of the grass and sky to be relaxing, while the narrator of the poem finds it monotonous, as shown by the quote, “I had not forgotten how they had sunk into mine when I came fresh from ploughing forever and forever between green aisles of corn, where, as in a treadmill, one might walk from daybreak to dusk without perceiving a shadow of change in one's environment.”
The differences
In My Antonia, Jim respects the prairie. He has reverence for its vastness whereas the narrator of “A Wagner Matinee” felt distain towards the prairie. Jim recalls a time when, “we were so deep in the grass that we could see nothing but the blue sky over us and the gold tree in front of us. It was wonderfully pleasant.” He finds the unvarying nature of the grass and sky to be relaxing, while the narrator of the poem finds it monotonous, as shown by the quote, “I had not forgotten how they had sunk into mine when I came fresh from ploughing forever and forever between green aisles of corn, where, as in a treadmill, one might walk from daybreak to dusk without perceiving a shadow of change in one's environment.”
The differences