The Pied Beauty is written by a preacher and we can see the influence his beliefs

have on his writing. It’s important to understand what pied means. It means something

that contains multiple colors. The author uses this idea in several examples. He talks

about a bird's view of farm fields and multi-colored fish. He also describes chestnuts

and other beauties nature brings.

However this doesn’t stop with nature. He continues to pattern by including

people. He talks about how people are made of many colors, shapes, oddities, and

ideas. The beautiful display of people as they come together in one gigantic

masterpiece is beautiful. It rejoices in diversity and the art that comes from it. Even with

every person that is multiple colors, metaphorically. We are all a combination of different

experiences, relationships, and thoughts. Each person is divinely beautiful in their own

way.

There is a rhyming scheme present, but there is not a specific format that the

author is fitting. It’s not a sonnet because it’s not 14 lines and doesn’t have the very

specific rhyming scheme. Since it breaks all those rules it cannot be considered as a

sonnet.

This relates to Silent Spring because this is what Rachel Carson is defending.

She wants to preserve the natural, god-given beauty of nature. If she didn’t appreciate

nature she never would have made that book her life work. Both her and this author

understood the beauty of nature and diversity. In her book we learn about the soil and

it’s complicated systems that never end or begin. Something like that that thrives on

diversity is what keeps life alive. Without those rich nutrients in variety, the soil and

plants would be unhealthy. Both Carson and the author have a fascination for nature
and the beauty that is a part of it. It’s truly incredible how there’s a grand design to this

beauty that we are all a part of.