Mitchell\u2019s views in \u201cImperial Landscape\u201d reminded me of the different landscapes that were discussed in Meinig\u2019s \u201cBeholding the Eye,\u201d specifically landscape as wealth and landscape as aesthetic. I found these crossovers to be the strongest and most interesting in the last section of the paper \u201cThe Sacred Silent Language,\u201d which begins with an excerpt from Emerson\u2019s Nature. The excerpt simply says that the best part of a farmer\u2019s land is the landscape that it is a part of, yet the farmer does not own the landscape. The landscape is owned by the poet, who is able to put all the parts in front of him together without physically altering it. It is his poetic property. <\/p>\n
Mitchell looks deeper into the distinction between land and landscape with the comparison of a mountain filled with gold and the Grand Canyon. The mountain filled with gold is valuable only while gold still exists; once it ha been all mined and dug out, the mountain is worthless. Yet the value of the Grand Canyon as a landscape is invaluable. The amount of postcards, paintings, and artistic work that the Grand Canyon has been the subject for or has inspired in countless. In this sense, landscape as aesthetic and landscape as wealth are one in the same. The wealth is a product of the aesthetic landscape and the feelings that come from it. These feelings can be the simple awe from appreciating the natural beauty, but as Mitchell would argue, these feelings are typically wrapped up in the cultural forces that shape our perception. The Grand Canyon is a geological wonder, but also symbol of the American Frontier ands its sense of adventure and opportunity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mitchell\u2019s views in \u201cImperial Landscape\u201d reminded me of the different landscapes that were discussed in Meinig\u2019s \u201cBeholding the Eye,\u201d specifically landscape as wealth and landscape as aesthetic. I found these crossovers to be the strongest and most interesting in the last section of the paper \u201cThe Sacred Silent Language,\u201d which begins with an excerpt from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/allen-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}