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English 11 Name: Neeracha Lokunpai (Medkao) Teacher: Mr. George Schelz Date: 27 May 2017
Life Guider
In her poetry, Mary Oliver uses literary devices such as simile, metaphor, imagery, symbolism and personification to honour (human) life and to inspire people to live according to their beliefs/principles. Mary Oliver is a writer of many famous poems. With her creativity and unique writing style of a free and continuous verse, she has received many prizes including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She is best known for connecting the natural to the things in daily life. Most people get inspiration from reading her poems. The use of descriptive words has caught the reader's mind by combining the different perceptions of humans, plants, and animals.
"The Journey" 's main point is to teach us to follow the voice from our own heart by the use of symbolism. Conformity is when an individual decides to speak or act in a certain way because they follow the majority. Mary Oliver believed people listen and care too much about the society and most of the time they've followed what others believed or did. In this poem, it states about the transformation of people though from listening to the other to accept to oneself. Oliver tries to convince the reader to listen to their own heart, and the follow their own though as shown in the first stanza, “[T]hough the voices around you keep shouting their bad advice,” (3-4) which means that the word from other doesn’t help us to be better. In opposite, it's more worse. The imagery and symbolism present in “[R]oad full of fallen
branches and stones,” (20-21) where branches and stone are the symbol of hardship and the problem that we all have to encounter in daily life. The stone is the barrier that we all has to be ed in the road’s life. A path that is not strewed with the smooth carpet. It could make us spill out or falling down. This line give reader the picture of a bumpy road. It’s shade from the tree but there’s also a dead twig that falls down on the way. "[B]ut you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried, with its stiff fingers at the very foundations," (13-16) is a personification. The finger, a limb of the human body, is giving a human quality to a non-living such as the wind. In order to live legitimately, we should decide to listen to our own voice rather than the society. The poem directed to the life of acceptance the new and leave behind the old.
“Wild Geese” is a poem that using the imagery of freedom as a poetic device to message the reader to inspires people to be the best of themselves. Frequently, we are taught that if we are good, we will get a reward. Oliver shows in the first line of the poem “You do not have to be good,” that for some reward, we don’t have to be good. “Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes,” (8-9) indicate the metaphor by illustrating the movement of the rain that travels across the sky to go back home like the human or geese. The repetition of word “meanwhile” in line7,8,12 shows that everything is still moving on even though the life is not perfect. It guides us to do whatever make us happy and to leave behind all the mistake and guilt. “[M]eanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again,” (12-13) gives the image of wild geese flying high in the clear blue sky with a hope of going home or going back to our safe place. Oliver tries to convince the reader to accepted what had happened and be opened. The flight gives an image of freedom. “[W]hoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination,” (14-15) delivered that no matter how sick, suffer, loneliness we are, the
world will always offer something to you, hope. Wild Geese gives a message of hope. Everyone in the world has their own hard time and difficulty, but the world keeps moving and never going back. If we stopped for a while and looked around, we will see that there’s still a beautiful and exciting life.
“When death comes” explores the arrival of death that we all have to confront. Oliver appeals the death as a pathway to peace. She tries to say that it doesn’t matter about how we die, but it is what we left behind for the others to see and discuss. In this poem, Oliver uses the title “When death comes” as a figurative and imagery by making the reader imagine what is it going to be like when we die and reminding people to live their life enough, so they don’t have to be regretful when death comes. The beginning of the poem shows the use of simile by pairing death to the hungry bear in autumn. “[W]hen death comes like the hungry bear in autumn,” (1-2) gives us the image of the wild bear finding the food during the fall which is the season that the bear demand more food to prepare for the hibernation. This is like people who struggle against death. “[W]hen death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse,” (3-4) is personification because of death, a state of mind, is imagined as the arrival of the person. The bright coin is also the contrast of the death where people usually imagine death as something dark. “[A]nd I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular,” (15-16) also present the use of simile by comparing flower to life. The flowers are all familiar because of its abundant, but as an individual, each flower has its uniqueness. The author tries to give us the aspect of life which is no differ from the daisy flower. The word “death” appear in the poem five times. The author wants to imply that death is one component in our life. We don’t have to be feared to death. In contrast, we should see death as a route to defining the way we lived
Each poem of Oliver has gone through the use of imagery, as a device to motivate people to live the way beliefs, to appreciate life, and to values the way we live. She always corroborates the real life situation to the natural thing in the world. Her writing style genuinely reflects the nature that surrounded us. She wants the reader to understand about the occurrence in life and be real to oneself.
References :
Gow, B. (2014, February 18). JOURNEY by mARYoLIVER. Retrieved May 12, 2017, from https://prezi.com/aj83dm1nvysg/journey-by-maryoliver/
Mary Oliver ▾. (n.d.). Retrieved May 17, 2017, from https://www.enotes.com/topics/mary-oliver/critical-essays Mary Oliver. (n.d.). Retrieved May 12, 2017, from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/mary-oliver Mary Oliver. (n.d.). Retrieved May 12, 2017, from http://faculty.asd.wednet.edu/~asmithson/oliver.htm Mary Oliver Poetry Analysis. (2012, December 11). Retrieved May 12, 2017, from https://whendeathcomes.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/mary-oliver-poetry-analysis/ Shmoop Editorial Team. (2008, November 11). When Death Comes Analysis. Retrieved May 23, 2017, from http://www.shmoop.com/when-death-comes/analysis.html "The Journey" by Mary Oliver: a sample literary analysis. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2017, from http://lovetowrite.typepad.com/mskwebsite/2007/04/the_journey_by_.html Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, an analysis. (2016, July 14). Retrieved May 23, 2017, from http://www.shadowofiris.com/wild-geese-mary-oliver-analysis/
Life Guider
In her poetry, Mary Oliver uses literary devices such as simile, metaphor, imagery, symbolism and personification to honour (human) life and to inspire people to live according to their beliefs/principles. Mary Oliver is a writer of many famous poems. With her creativity and unique writing style of a free and continuous verse, she has received many prizes including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She is best known for connecting the natural to the things in daily life. Most people get inspiration from reading her poems. The use of descriptive words has caught the reader's mind by combining the different perceptions of humans, plants, and animals.
"The Journey" 's main point is to teach us to follow the voice from our own heart by the use of symbolism. Conformity is when an individual decides to speak or act in a certain way because they follow the majority. Mary Oliver believed people listen and care too much about the society and most of the time they've followed what others believed or did. In this poem, it states about the transformation of people though from listening to the other to accept to oneself. Oliver tries to convince the reader to listen to their own heart, and the follow their own though as shown in the first stanza, “[T]hough the voices around you keep shouting their bad advice,” (3-4) which means that the word from other doesn’t help us to be better. In opposite, it's more worse. The imagery and symbolism present in “[R]oad full of fallen
branches and stones,” (20-21) where branches and stone are the symbol of hardship and the problem that we all have to encounter in daily life. The stone is the barrier that we all has to be ed in the road’s life. A path that is not strewed with the smooth carpet. It could make us spill out or falling down. This line give reader the picture of a bumpy road. It’s shade from the tree but there’s also a dead twig that falls down on the way. "[B]ut you didn’t stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried, with its stiff fingers at the very foundations," (13-16) is a personification. The finger, a limb of the human body, is giving a human quality to a non-living such as the wind. In order to live legitimately, we should decide to listen to our own voice rather than the society. The poem directed to the life of acceptance the new and leave behind the old.
“Wild Geese” is a poem that using the imagery of freedom as a poetic device to message the reader to inspires people to be the best of themselves. Frequently, we are taught that if we are good, we will get a reward. Oliver shows in the first line of the poem “You do not have to be good,” that for some reward, we don’t have to be good. “Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes,” (8-9) indicate the metaphor by illustrating the movement of the rain that travels across the sky to go back home like the human or geese. The repetition of word “meanwhile” in line7,8,12 shows that everything is still moving on even though the life is not perfect. It guides us to do whatever make us happy and to leave behind all the mistake and guilt. “[M]eanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again,” (12-13) gives the image of wild geese flying high in the clear blue sky with a hope of going home or going back to our safe place. Oliver tries to convince the reader to accepted what had happened and be opened. The flight gives an image of freedom. “[W]hoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination,” (14-15) delivered that no matter how sick, suffer, loneliness we are, the
world will always offer something to you, hope. Wild Geese gives a message of hope. Everyone in the world has their own hard time and difficulty, but the world keeps moving and never going back. If we stopped for a while and looked around, we will see that there’s still a beautiful and exciting life.
“When death comes” explores the arrival of death that we all have to confront. Oliver appeals the death as a pathway to peace. She tries to say that it doesn’t matter about how we die, but it is what we left behind for the others to see and discuss. In this poem, Oliver uses the title “When death comes” as a figurative and imagery by making the reader imagine what is it going to be like when we die and reminding people to live their life enough, so they don’t have to be regretful when death comes. The beginning of the poem shows the use of simile by pairing death to the hungry bear in autumn. “[W]hen death comes like the hungry bear in autumn,” (1-2) gives us the image of the wild bear finding the food during the fall which is the season that the bear demand more food to prepare for the hibernation. This is like people who struggle against death. “[W]hen death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse,” (3-4) is personification because of death, a state of mind, is imagined as the arrival of the person. The bright coin is also the contrast of the death where people usually imagine death as something dark. “[A]nd I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular,” (15-16) also present the use of simile by comparing flower to life. The flowers are all familiar because of its abundant, but as an individual, each flower has its uniqueness. The author tries to give us the aspect of life which is no differ from the daisy flower. The word “death” appear in the poem five times. The author wants to imply that death is one component in our life. We don’t have to be feared to death. In contrast, we should see death as a route to defining the way we lived
Each poem of Oliver has gone through the use of imagery, as a device to motivate people to live the way beliefs, to appreciate life, and to values the way we live. She always corroborates the real life situation to the natural thing in the world. Her writing style genuinely reflects the nature that surrounded us. She wants the reader to understand about the occurrence in life and be real to oneself.
References :
Gow, B. (2014, February 18). JOURNEY by mARYoLIVER. Retrieved May 12, 2017, from https://prezi.com/aj83dm1nvysg/journey-by-maryoliver/
Mary Oliver ▾. (n.d.). Retrieved May 17, 2017, from https://www.enotes.com/topics/mary-oliver/critical-essays Mary Oliver. (n.d.). Retrieved May 12, 2017, from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/mary-oliver Mary Oliver. (n.d.). Retrieved May 12, 2017, from http://faculty.asd.wednet.edu/~asmithson/oliver.htm Mary Oliver Poetry Analysis. (2012, December 11). Retrieved May 12, 2017, from https://whendeathcomes.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/mary-oliver-poetry-analysis/ Shmoop Editorial Team. (2008, November 11). When Death Comes Analysis. Retrieved May 23, 2017, from http://www.shmoop.com/when-death-comes/analysis.html "The Journey" by Mary Oliver: a sample literary analysis. (n.d.). Retrieved May 16, 2017, from http://lovetowrite.typepad.com/mskwebsite/2007/04/the_journey_by_.html Wild Geese by Mary Oliver, an analysis. (2016, July 14). Retrieved May 23, 2017, from http://www.shadowofiris.com/wild-geese-mary-oliver-analysis/
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