"The Bath" by Gary Snyder

          The poem "The Bath" by Gary Snyder ties the gap between the universe and it's human inhabitants.  The level of attachment Snyder has with his son and wife is unlike family relationships in America today.  Most people do not connect the entire universe with our creation, but Snyder connects the world around him with his own creation and the creation of his son with the help of his wife, "the seed still tucked away, that moved from us to him / In flows that lifted with the same joys forces / as his nursing Masa later, / playing with her breast, / Or me within her, / Or him emerging, / this is our body."  His poetry is deep and I appreciate the emotional depth of his work because it makes connections people don't regularly see.  Most people are raised with some sort of religious background and are taught that there is a greater omnipotent creator behind our existence, but the poet believes the world around him brought him and his family to this earth.  He says, "The cloud across the sky. The windy pines./ the trickle gurgle in the swampy meadow / this is our body."  Snyder broadens the minds of his readers with his work by giving a naturalistic point of view on life by connecting the ecological "body" of the universe with his own physical body.