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The landscape in “My Antonia”
"This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand. I was little and homesick and lonely and my mother was homesick and nobody paid any attention to us. So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn,that shaggy grass country had gripped ....
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The West is also a particularly difficult target for the kind of ``country life'' Cather seeks to describe. The first description we get of the landscape depicts it as alive, but with none of the human activity of, say, urban life or even developed rural life.
Perhaps the glide of long railway travel was still with me, for more than anything else I felt motion in the landscape; in the fresh, easy-blowing morning wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy grass were a sort of loose hide, and underneath the herds of wild buffalo ....
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