Writers are not only noted for what they write, but mostly for their style of writing. The art and beauty of the retrospective narrative is when a writer depicts a significant event and or place from their own personal experience. For instance, E. B. White's One More to the Lake is masterful in taking us back into the past as well as The Town Dump by Wallace Stegner. Even though, Loren Eiseley's The Brown Wasps reminisces about the past, he has an unusual way of expressing this. Although writing has been in existence for centuries, retrospective narratives gives us an opportunity to look into the heart and soul of the writer.
             In Once More to the Lake, E. B. White decides to revisit the camp he knew as a child, which was on the lake in Maine. At the onset of his journey to the lake with his son in tow, he begins to recall the campsite environment. As he describes the lake, he gives it a spiritual appearance, along with using sensory details such as sight, smell and sound to paint a vivid picture of nature at its finest. For instance, he uses words like, "this holy spot" and "the stillness of the cathedral," when he describes the lake and also says "the bedroom smelled of the lumber it was made of and of the wet woods whose scent entered through the screen." During the course of his reflections he notices when White interacts and watches the actions of his young son, he speaks of feeling a strange sensation, which he later calls transposition. This comes about when E. B. notices his own gestures when he is with his young son or when his young son sneaks off to the lake to take the boat out for a !
             ride, which is just as he did when he was a young boy himself. Although at first he considered this sensation to be an illusion, but he later realizes that when he observes his surroundings with his son, he is seeing through the eyes of his father, when he was young boy or through the eyes of his young son. For instance, he says...