Emily Dickinson A Day Mary Oliver Analysis

Emily Dickinson’s “A Day” and Mary Oliver’s “Morning” both use a lot of imagery and symbolism to describe a charming fantasy for their readers describing in great detail about the lovely wondrous pleasures of creation and how such beauty can be seen each day. Although both take slightly different approaches, Dickinson focuses on something so simple and everyday through the eyes of a young child, so full of curiosity and innocence, and shows the work of creation as if one might be seeing these things for the first time. While Oliver draws lessons from the natural world, referencing them to a more personal connection for her readers, engaging in them to feel more emotionally and feel inspired to want to take pleasure as well as be more appreciative
The poem describes the natural reoccurrence of the sunrise and sunset, but it also describes the difficulties of perceiving the world around us. Dickinson’s verses are often associated by a Iambic meter with alternating lines of eight to six syllables. The meter gives the poem a really nice rhythm and keeps structure and content well organized. Although, however, her rhyme scheme continually alternates on and off between rhyme and slant rhyme, using words that do not quite rhyme but sound slightly similar. The slant rhyme in Dickinson’s poem are used very nicely to draw attention to key parts of the poem.
When we take a look at Oliver’s poem it is written in free verse meaning, it does not rhyme or have a regular meter. The author may have chosen to write her poem this way because it’s so reflective and kind of personal, in away each reader can read this poem and have their own interpretations. Also, included a lot in this poem she uses a lot of imagery such as “Under the orange sticks of the sun the heaped ashes of the night turn into leaves again.” The imagery in this poem helps readers better understand and really get a sense of the author's vision for