Yesterday Uncas first took me to the “green and angry waters lashed the shores.” They were so foreboding. Being in that spot made a chill run up my spine. Cooper’s description seemed to personify the water- it had emotion and it was punishing the shores. I felt that emotion when I was there - it was ominous!
Next, Uncas took me to the battlefield (after a battle of course,for safety purposes. What a scene! There were bodies everywhere. The land was scarred. As Cooper put it, the entire countryside “appeared now like some pictured allegory of life.” It was dark and gloomy, it was as if you could still hear the cries, the canons, and smell the gun powder in the air.
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