In Wright's poem, Request to a Year, the reader gets a first hand look into the fascination that she possesses about the resilience of human nature. In this poem, one finds that there is a mother sitting on a high rock sketching out the landscape that appears massive, quiet and dispassionate. Below her the scene shifts to her son who is struggling to survive as he balances on an ice floe that is approaching a waterfall. Yet, the mother does nothing and continues to sketch. Finally he is eventually saved by the mother's daughter who, stretching out an alpenstock (walking stick), pulls him to safety. What is most striking about this scenario is the "firmness" of the mother, who, unable to do anything to help her son, remains on the rock and sketches the e

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