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Crawford
Notch--the landscape and conception of sublime here has more meaning: In
August, 1826, an avalanche at Crawford Notch took the lives of the Willey
Family, nine in all. Crawford Notch,
in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, was a well-known scenic site and
Cole’s audience would have known of this tragedy.
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Hawthorne’s “The Ambitious Guest” (1837) is a story
about the tragedy
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Sense of
ominousness with the storm coming on: scale dwarfs humanity
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Crawford
Notch--the landscape and conception of sublime here has more meaning:
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Ancient gnarled
tree--device used by Cole to underscore age of America's wilderness
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