In the poem "The Forsaken", the author uses effective description of place in order to show the role of nature in the poem.

The author uses the woman's courage and dignity, to show his/her effectiveness in the description of nature in the poem. The author states in the poem "Valiant, unshaken She took her own flesh Baited the fish hook and caught a grey trout". This shows excellent description on how the role of nature took place. By the woman using her own flesh to catch this fish shows the woman's courage to cut her own self in order to survive and feed her baby and feed her. The author mentions in the book "the entire lake surface steamed with hissing of millions of ice flakes hurled by the wind;" this shows the descriptiveness of nature and how nasty it was as it played a...