Mary oliver the journey4/10/2023 A knee down in the east corner buckled, a gray shin rose and the root, wet and hairy, sank back in, a little closer. The watersnakes slipped down the banks like green hooks and floated away.īanyan groaned. ![]() The cattle egret moved out into the sunlight, like so many pieces of white ribbon. It was the hundred-legged tree, walking again. Something screamed from the fringes of the swamp. Personification is a tool that many writers use, especially poets, and Mary Oliver effectively uses it to describe a massive banyan tree in this poem. When I set it down, it hurried along the tideline. Under the pure white roof of old calcium. Or almost a face- it turned away and frisked up its brawny forearms so quicklyĪgainst the light and my looking in I scarcely had time to see it, gleaming Once I looked inside the darkness of a shell folded like a pastry, and there was a fancy face. In this excerpt, you will see her playful description of the crab’s shell as “folded like a pastry.” The short lines used in this poem mimic the quick movements of the hermit crab. The female, and the two chicks, each no bigger than my thumb, scattered, shimmering in their pale-green dresses then they rose, tiny fireworks, into the leaves and hovered then they sat down, each one with dainty, charcoal fee- each one on a slender branch- and looked at me. In this excerpt from “Hummingbirds,” see how Oliver uses unexpected imagery to describe hummingbirds, presenting them as “tiny fireworks”: ![]() ![]() Here are some of Mary Oliver’s works that will surely give you a new perspective of the beauty of creation: 1. Oliver’s poems have won the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, among many others, helping her gain much-deserved recognition as a visionary poet along the lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Her poems bring even the most tranquil aspects of nature to life, from still ponds, to quiet owls in their perches, and even the tiny flutters of hummingbirds. If you like reading poems about nature, Mary Oliver’s work should be high on your list.
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