How Does Mary Oliver Use Metaphors In The Journey

One major example of this is the metaphor about brick walls.”Brick walls are there for a reason.They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.(pg 79)”Pausch symbolizes the brick walls as adversities and also as opportunities to show how badly one wants something. Pausch converses the message to his readers that life might have obstacles that one should go over but that should not halt someone from living life fully.This example of metaphor was effective at building the claim because it shows readers that one should face obstacles as possibilities and to deal with them with an open mind to sincerely live life to the

imagery, diction, and irony to develop a relationship between the speaker and the swamp. These

Pat Mora, Lucille Clifton, Mary Oliver use personification to create a message in these three poems by, how Lucille Clifton use personification to send a message. The personification sentence that Lucille Clifton created for her poem called "Earth is a Living Thing" by how the earth is "Feel her rolling her hand in its kinky hair." By how she uses words to make things that are nonliving sound like they are getting human abilities. Pat Mora uses personification to express the abilities of the non-living thing that she gave human abilities in her poem called "Gold". The sentence that she used in her poem called "Gold" was "When Sun paints the desert with its gold." Mary Oliver put personification in her poem so she could use the sentence

Journey’s have been important throughout the world and in history. Columbus’s journey is an example because if he didn't take the journey and step out of his comfort zone the Americas would not be a place that we call home. People who learn from a powerful experience become intelligent in many ways. In the “Odyssey” by Homer, the author uses Odysseus to show that people can overcome obstacles in their way to get to an important destination. With in the “Journey” by Mary Oliver, the author conveys that if people are struck with negativity and go outside their comfort zone, they use strength to gain more self positivity and strength.

The paths taken in each person’s lifetime can associate with any factor or situation that one may come across. For example, one could come across a path that stands for tradition and the effect of traditional beliefs on a society like the one represented in “Dead Man’s Path.” Another example could be a path that stands for the power of love and the effect of unselfishness that makes one continue with life like the one represented in “A Worn Path.” An additional example could be a path that stands for overcoming doubts of beliefs as these may uphold or tear one apart like the path represented in “Young Goodman Brown.” No path is easier than another and they all hold a spectacular significance in each person’s life. Therefore, in this independent

Mary Oliver and Homer use figurative language to reveal that people go on journeys to find what they are missing and explore their own character. The lesson that both pieces relay relates to many people. In life we all struggle to figure out just who we are and what we want. Through experiences and the people we meet we eventually are able to learn more about ourselves, this is conveyed through both pieces of

The author of the book, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass, once wrote “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find yourself.”(Hale, Mandy) “The Odyssey” is an epic poem written by Homer depicting the adventures of a man named Odysseus who is traveling back to his home of Ithaka. The poem “The Journey” by Mary Oliver features a girl who finally realizes her purpose then journeys out into the world. Personification in each of the poems portrays how people undertake journeys to pursue goals based on greed but instead find themselves during the journey and come to realize that their original purpose was trivial.

In this metaphor, the tunnel represents a difficult trial such as when Miss Maudie’s house burned down. The light represents hope and a bright future which comes if we work on it and believe it will. The journey represents having courage to overcome the trial. In Harper Lee’s

All heroes around the world go through a journey of their own. Those journeys can be a physical, , mental, emotional journey, and lots more. These types of personal journeys are demonstrated in an epic poem, The Odyssey, by Homer, an interview, The Hero’s adventure by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers, a short poem, Courage by Anne Sexton, a graphic novel, The Odyssey by Gareth Hinds. They all show how journeys can be transformative and show a person’s strengths and/or weaknesses.

Man has undertook and completed many journeys that were not only huge, but also great in size and objective. Although these journeys were remarkable, different kinds of journeys are often spoke of today. While there are physical and spiritual journeys, a mental journey is one that is quite noteworthy. Examples of mental journeys can be seen all over literature. In “The Odyssey”, an epic poem written by Homer, a man named Odysseus realizes family is the most important thing in life.

In the poem “The Journey”, Mary Oliver demonstrates how an individual must undergo a transformation through life in order to find oneself. Judging by the title itself, the poem will convey a sense of struggle and achievement a human being will face through the obstacles of life. In the beginning of the poem, Mary Oliver states “one day you finally knew what you had to do”. This assures the audience that they ultimately know what is best for them and should choose their own path to follow. Although it may be intimidating to find your own voice with a society that “voices around you” and “keeps shouting their bad advice”, it is best to avoid listening to them and move forward in order to progress in life.

Famous novelist John Steinbeck once said that “We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us”(John Steinbeck Quotes). Steinbeck’s quote reflects on the concept of fate, and how we do not control our own life. Homer's astounding epic poem the Odyssey tells of a man, Odysseus who after the battle of Troy is working his way home. Odysseus faced many obstacles, and he experienced the vicissitudes of life through the 20 years he was working on getting home. Mary Oliver’s marvelous poem “The Journey” relays the experience of defeating the voices holding you back. Homer uses tone and foreshadowing. While Oliver uses personification and repetition. Both convey that people undertake journeys to experience life as

“A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty is a journey of Phoenix Jackson, an elderly woman who wanted medicine for her grandchild. “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is about a passenger which did not go on journey but she was taken on journey. “So she left that tree, and had to go through a barbed-wire fence” (Welty 57) Phoenix was almost blind and followed rugged path through the countryside in which she overcame every obstacle in her way, such as wire fence, animals, high hills, bright sun, etc. In Dickinson’s poem, the passenger doesn’t face any obstacle like Phoenix did but Death stopped the passenger because she could not have stopped for him.

Robert Frosts “The Road Not Taken” is more symbolic of a choice one must make in their life in attempt to foresee the outcome before reaching the end, than it is about choosing the right path in the woods.

Wherein this is the extent of the metaphor, where in this poem it is a changeable anomaly subject to the readers interpretation of taking the road less travelled and whether it be a positive (sigh of satisfaction) or negative (sigh of regret). This is all one can hope when using a metaphor relating to the readers life, that they substitute their own feelings and create their own meaning, their own attitude towards to such decisions and subsequently, such journeys.