Mary Oliver's Wild Geese

In "Stanislowski vs Grenfell" by Stephen Scriver and "The Future of Poetry in Canada" by Elizabeth Brewster small town prairie life is portrayed as low culture and simplistic in an endearing manner. Scriver and Brewster find the beauty in the ordinary circumstances presented in a prairie atmosphere and, rather than passing judgement, appreciate the differences from urban settings.

In Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese, the purpose is to inform the audience to accept themselves and not try to conform to standards set by society. The speaker mainly establishes credibility through her understanding of the struggles that the audience faces. In the quote, “You do not have to be good,” she displays her understanding of the audience by implying that they can let their guards down and let their true colors show, consequently causing the audience to feel accepted and place trust in the speaker. The speaker also appeals to ethos by asking the audience to tell her about their despairs and she will do the same in return. This shows the audience that the speaker is honest and open, forging trust in the audience and this elevates her position in their minds.

Most poetry authors give their poems abstract titles with deeper meanings within them, but Oliver did not choose to do that method. As soon as a reader sees the title of her poem, they will have an idea in their head of what the poem will be about. Doing this makes it more simple and easier to read, but at the same time relay an important message that Oliver wants readers to know. The poem revolves around the idea of oxygen and the life it brings to everything, and Oliver’s way of directly giving that hint to readers is in the

Firstly, Wilfred Owen wrote a poem named Dulce et Decorum. Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 in Owestry, Shropshire and he died in 1918. Dulce et Decorum was written in 1917. Wilfred Owen enlisted for the war in 1915 and trained in England until the end of 1916. In 1917 he was posted to France to fight where he was often in the trenches. Wilfred Owen suffered shell shock and was sent to Craig Lockhart hospital near Edinburgh. This is where he wrote many of his poems about war after having

Mary Oliver’s article offers honest opinions on Rustum Roy. This article is very detailed when it comes to friendships. Friendship is the theme of the poem in “Wild Geese.” The article talks about Roy’s life and how he lived but most importantly what his friendship meant. He lived a very adventurous life and his friends miss that special memory they got to share with him.

Like Spring, Wild Geese is written in casual language, but still manages to be stimulating and powerful. It’s rational simplicity truly captures the might of the words that sweep through our hearts to provoke a feeling of unity and tranquillity with nature. This is exactly what Oliver is attempting to portray through her poems, Wild Geese especially, by reminding us that we as a human race are so preoccupied with the melodramatics of life that we fail to see the beauty and wonders surrounding us, and that we should sit back and follow the natural and simple path the non-human world follows.

Therefore, the poem “Wild Geese”, connects both the natural and human worlds, demonstrating that the

When he left Craiglockhart he furthered his poetry career when he was introduced to the London literary society. Although Owens future seemed promising Owen decided to leave this safe predictable home and return to France to fight. He fought on the Beaurevoir – fousomme line and was awarded the military cross. But during his time in France he fell under machine fire.

Oliver would write this poem because she did not conform to societies wishes. According to the Poetry Foundation, Oliver has never actually received a degree despite attending The Ohio State University and Vassar College. By not completing college, she had stepped out of the normal procedure of American life of growing up, going to college, then working. She also “met her long-time partner, Molly Malone

Owen was in the Pyrenees at the time when war broke out he was tutoring to the Leger family. He became frustrated hearing about all the men dying in the battlefields of Belgium and France and wanted to make a

Through sensory imagery, he portrayed the severe everlasting conditions. Owen’s treatment for shellshock at Craig Lockhart mental hospital influenced his writing and he was undergoing the treatment when his first poem was published. His poems continued to be published even after his death in November 1918, one week before the ceasefire.

Wilfred Owen can be considered as one of the finest war poets of all times. His war poems, a collection of works composed between January 1917, when he was first sent to the Western Front, and November 1918, when he was killed in action, use a variety of poetic techniques to allow the reader to empathise with his world, situation, emotions and thoughts. The sonnet form, para-rhymes, ironic titles, voice, and various imagery used by Owen grasp the prominent central idea of the complete futility of war as well as explore underlying themes such as the massive waste of young lives, the horrors of war, the hopelessness of war and the loss of religion. These can be seen in the three poems, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and

Let’s take ourselves back to 1914, when the outbreak of war had just begun and the world was naïve to the consequences of a world war. Like all young men in this period of time, Owen aspired to be a soldier in the World War because of how fantastic it sounded. War was viewed as a big adventure to travel the world with your mates. The men were told that they were going to be great heroes, known as ‘The Men of England’. So much glory and comradery was filled in the young boys’ minds, and before they went off to war they felt that they were powerful soldiers ready for anything. Oh the irony. No one told them that they could be shot in the head at any moment in time, no one told them they could lose they best mate in an instant second, no one told them what war was really like. No knowledge, imagination or training fully prepared Owen for the real reality of war and the powerlessness of the soldier during and after war.

Wilfred Owen was born in Oswestry, England on March 18, 1893, and from a young age, he became interested in the arts. Owen was born into a modest family and moved around a lot. Owen was born to Thomas Owen and Susan Shaw. Thomas, Owen’s father “felt constrained by his somewhat dull and low-paid position as a railway station master” (McDowell). Meanwhile, Owen’s mother thought that being married to Thomas held her back in pursuing her dreams. The family moved twice after Owen’s birth, once “[after] he turned four” and then later “moved to another modest house, in Shrewsbury” (McDowell). Owen became interested in poetry at a young age and his interest continued to flourish. He enjoyed writing and reading poetry in his free time, and even when he was young “his work also manifested some stylistic qualities that even then tended to set

As the war continued, and the army’s numbers needed to increase, various pro-war propaganda were made, and poets like Jessie Pope and Robert Graves, who knew very little of the reality of war, would contribute with poems romanticising war and the life of a soldier. Wilfred Owen had experienced the war first-hand, and had spent years of his life in the harsh, filthy, and dangerous conditions in the trenches, digging new trenches, repairing old ones, carting equipment and supplies, or spending long hours on sentry duty or on listening posts, or fighting the enemies. He eventually had been so influenced and terrified by those circumstances, he was sent off to hospital for treatment of shell shock, where he composed poems to not only process the horrors he dealt with daily as a soldier, but to shame those oblivious war-supporting poets and bring the real image of war into light for the young men applying to the army as he was outraged by the support of the war from those who had never been to the