Donovan It's All On Me Literary Analysis

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Have you ever wanted to be encapsulated by nature? Well, there were at least for authors that were: Jon Krakauer, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Michael Donovan. Each of these writers has been accredited to supporting the transcendentalist beliefs of becoming one with nature and returning back to our roots as people. Each with their own unique story about rebellion and being oneself; however, they share the same ideologies keeping their stories unique yet similar. Michael Donovan’s poem, “It’s All-On-Me” is about how one must rebel against the “normalities” of society be become true to oneself. Donovan supports this idea with the simple yet extremely powerful line, “Rise-up”. In this statement he wants to reader to realize