When Dorothy stood in the doorway and looked around, she could see nothing but the great gray prairie on every side. Not a tree nor house broke the broad sweep of flat country that reached to the edge of the sky in all directions. The sun had baked the plowed land into a gray
mass, with little cracks running through it. Even the grass was not green, for the sun had burned the tops of the long blades until they were the
same gray color to be seen everywhere. Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now
the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
In both the passage and the poem, the setting reflects the feelings and thoughts of the speaker or character.
How is the setting portrayed differently in the poem?
1. Nature is described as being unchanging
2. Nature is described as having human qualities.
3. The speaker suggests that nature follows a pattern.
4.The speaker suggests that nature is often not well observed.