13+ Landscape Rainy Mountain Background. Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of rainy mountain, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood. Rainy mountain, which is a symbol of home for the kiowas, is described as being integrated into a complex and dynamic landscape.
My grandmother had died in the spring, and i wanted to be at her.
What is the effect of the figurative language in this sentence? Within this sort of setting, it seems that the kiowa tribe spends much of their time under the boiling rays of the sun. The weather here is harsh, but momaday's evocative description of the landscape draws out its beauty. The imaginative experience and the historical express equally the traditions of man's reality.