Essays on Mary Oliver

Poems are often a reflection of the society they are written in. Many times, poets adopt the general rhetoric of the public, placing it in a poem that people can read and enjoy while at the same time allowing them to reflect on how said rhetoric affects them. Many of these topics spur from immigration, specifically the fear of immigration. An overwhelming fear of losing jobs to a surge of immigrants has long since plagued American citizens, as well as citizens of South Africa and other similar countries. In some of these countries, such as South Africa, immigrants have ...

Poems are a reflection of the society and more often than not, poets take up the general rhetoric in the public and put it in a poem that people can read and enjoy while at the same time reflecting on how this rhetoric affects them. The fear of losing jobs to immigrants has for a long time plagued citizens not just in America but also in countries like South Africa where, in the extreme cases, immigrants have been maimed and killed. It is this fear and hatred of foreigners that is commonly referred to as xenophobia. The poem so ...

The Outline

Introduction The title, the author of the poem Introduction to the poem Thesis: In the poem, Mary Oliver presents a conflict between sentimental and practical and employs the literary and figurative languages to contribute to the central idea of keeping the family traditions.

The use of the literary language to present the logical and practical reasons

The use of the figurative language to depict the sentimental reasons The contrasting images in the poem Conclusion “The Black Walnut Tree” is a short poem of thirty-five lines by Mary Oliver, written in free verse. The poem is included in the collection called “Twelve Moons” that suggests Oliver’s searches for connections. The author continually ...

For decades, television is a constituent part of people’s daily lives, all over the world. More than a routine, television represents a social tool for aligning viewers on a certain pattern of thinking or seeing the perceived reality transmitted through various programs. Most people are educated in the concepts that mass media, through television as one of its main mechanisms, serve their audiences. The topics presented through television programs are a reflection of the social reality. By presenting the social reality from a certain angle, television shapes attitudes and creates stereotypes. For instance, “The Wire” television program manipulates ...

Poems are used in order to express the feelings of the poet towards the issues they write about. They are used to bring forth the meanings of things that happen in society as well as nature. Emotions are drawn from poems because of the way in which a poet chooses to present their thoughts and the same can be said about the poems Wild Geese by Mary Oliver and Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. The two poems share a lot of similarities and differences too with regard to the language used and the meaning derived from them. There is also something ...

Imagination

Mary Oliver published Waste Land: An Elegy in the September – October 2003 issue of Orion magazine. In 2004, soon after publishing Waste Land, she released her book collection, Long life: Essays and Other Writings. Oliver fixes the imagery of how the site used to be as she projects her imagination to explore other potentials. Jamaica Kincaid first published Sowers and Reapers in the New Yorker on January 22, 2001. Although Kincaid is a well known a novelist, she is also a staff writer for the New Yorker who produced many essays examining her personal experiences. In this essay she forces her readers ...

Mary Oliver place of birth was Ohio and her poem describes how she loved the nature and its beauty. Her first five stanzas of the poem are mainly focused on the gorgeousness of the backwaters trees and the ponds. The essay below describes the critical analysis of in backwaters woods by Mary Oliver. The poem illustrates the beauty that is observed in the forest but it is destroyed by fires. Mary Oliver describes the destruction of the features of the land and the emotional burden that she still experience since the beautiful forest was burnt. In the first ...

Wild Geese, a poem by Mary Oliver, is a compelling literary piece that encourages people to have hope in life, obey natural instincts and have the determination to succeed. The Poem achieves this by employing anaphora, metaphors and simple, standard language as its core literary elements.

The author uses- anaphora- the repetition of a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses (online writing lab, n.d.). This is best exemplified in three lines that begin with “you”: “You do not have to walk,” “You do not have to be good,” and “You only have to let” (Oliver, 1986). She also ...

It has many acceptances, people perceive it in different ways, there are various stories around it, but one thing is certain: nobody can escape it. This is death, the final event in people’s lives, one that cannot be avoided. The current paper treats different perspectives about death, as expressed in the works of Dylan Thomas (Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night), Wislawa Szymblorska (“On Death without Exaggeration”), Mary Oliver (“When Death Comes”), and John Donne (“Death Be Not Proud”). One’s existence on earth includes several stages from the moment when he is born until ...