"Traveling Through the Dark‚" by William Strafford and "The Black Snake‚" by Mary Oliver use animals to express their thoughts in these poems. The animals play an important role in determining what the writers want to convey through its function‚ the relation between the speaker and animal‚ as well as the tone of the poem. Strafford does a great job of illustrating the function of the animal in "Traveling Through the Dark." The deer is dead on the side of the road from a hit and run and the speaker
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Mary Oliver In Mary Oliver’s award winning book‚ “Blue Pastures”‚ Oliver states three qualities that makes up an artist. The first quality is to be extraordinary and never ordinary. Also‚ break loose from time and the craziness of the world today to reach the inner child. Another quality is to find a place of solitude so creativity can flow uninterrupted. Oliver exhibited all three qualities and more. She is truly an artist. Oliver talks of the normal things in life that must be done. Dishes
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1. Discuss the way Oliver’s nature poems can be read as political- questioning the hierarchies and dualisms underpinning Western cultures. Mary Oliver’s poems that explore nature can also be read as political as they question the dualisms and hierarchies that form strong foundations in Western cultures. Through the emergence of the patriarchy (a Western ideology) over 5000 years ago‚ traditional epistemological paradigms of Western society have been based on dualisms. Through patriarchal ideology
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of the most mysterious animals of the world. In an excerpt from Mary Oliver’s essay "Owls‚" she discusses her fear as well as her utmost admiration of this most frightening of creatures. Mary Oliver’s use of threatening imagery conveys her deep fear of the power of this frightful creature. By using phrases referring to "it’s razor-tipped toes" and discussing the "heavy‚ crisp‚ breathy snapping of it’s hooked beak‚" Mary Oliver wants the reader to understand just how dangerous and scary these
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Brooke Herr AP English III 3A Mary Oliver shows both the beautiful and terrifying aspects of nature in “Owls”. She uses a variety of rhetorical questions to show her style throughout the entire passage; which gives us a better look at the complexity of nature. For instance the very first paragraph starts with an extensive sentence that flows with imagery. “When the great horned [owl] is in the trees its razor-tipped toes rasp the limb‚ flakes of bark fall through the air and land on my shoulders
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Literature world: deep messages of the poems How strong is the message of a poem? Mary Oliver is a woman who writes amazing and Deep poems about life problems‚ dark introspection‚ and other styles of writing. The time period of the poem is not exactly define‚ it just explains what it happens when you have a problem with yourself. The poem “The Journey”‚ Mary Oliver is trying to explain the journey that we have to do with ourselves with every single struggle we have‚ using theme‚ mood‚ hyperbole‚
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Searching Through the Muck Poetic Analysis of Crossing the Swamp by Mary Oliver In Crossing the Swamp‚ poet Mary Oliver illustrates her effective work of poetry. A vibrant relationship with a swamp changes from argumentative to victorious. By creating a scene that every reader can relate to‚ Oliver develops a connection between a deep swamp and life. Through diction‚ imagery and metaphor‚ Oliver forms a spectacular idea of life and the difficulties of making it through the swamp. The darker
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openly writing about emotions. In Mary Oliver’s poem “The Journey”‚ she expresses the idea that every human being breaks. Being broken could mean many things‚ and it’s up to the reader of Oliver’s poem to decide. The poem is written so that the reader is in the point of view‚ creating an atmosphere in which the reader connects with the poem. Oliver conveys the idea that emotions only control people to a certain point through denotation and personification. Oliver portrays that people can take control
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Stand Up and Speak Up After reading “The Journey” written by Mary Oliver‚ I have noted that the author of the poem was suggesting a few different themes and ideas. One of which is that although there will be countless things dragging you down in life‚ you must stay strong and carry on. From line four to line seven‚ the author mentioned that bad advice was shouted at you‚ and the entire house began to tremble. They represent the people who tell you that you will never succeed and the awful things
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Period 4B In this very lyrical excerpt‚ Mary Oliver has a great attraction to nature because of its paradoxical yet balancing form. By being both terrifying and beautiful‚ nature fills the world with contrasting entities that can be “death-bringers” or bring “immobilizing happiness.” Oliver uses imagery‚ parallelism‚ and contrasting to express her swaying emotions of fear‚ awe‚ and happiness towards nature. The imagery creates the very distinct contrast between terrifying and beautiful parts of
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