Can human and Nature become one?
...ver explains, "poem is music", within music people find pleasure. Depending on the person, numerous sorts of comfort or discomfort will happen while reading poetry or listening to music. People tend to relate their own personal experience with the beauty of words. Unlike some poetry or music, Mary Oliver creates a soft tone to all her writings, never creating a conflict for readers. She uses a structure that first describes nature, then human beings and lastly describes how the two subject come together to form a central theme. " I wrote this book [about metrical verse] to help readers of metrical poems enter the thudding deeps and the rippling shallows of sound-pleasure and rhythm-pleasure. I hope their understanding and pleasure of metric poetry will be deepened and complicated, so much so that their response to the poems becomes not only comprehension, but comprehension accompanied by a felt experience." ( The Rules of Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse) A lot like style and tone, metric format is a choice that the writer makes. This choice of the metric format is effective. The reason it is effective, is because the metric form shows an extensive amount of imagery, and is usually emotional and written in a narrative format. When a poet makes a decisions about what format they will use, they have to consider what form will represent their poem the best way. The tone she likes, always sets a mood. Most of her poetry is the peaceful movement of nature, which she compares that to the movement of human life. It is an amazing art, to keep a balanced attitude throughout all of her writings and never falter or fail to convey the vision and idea she is provoking. Metric form helps representing humans and nature in a great manner. In "Wild Geese", Mary Oliver sets up a mood for her readers, that is balancing nature and her ideas of imagination. The peaceful comfort that Mary Oliver pertains to in this piece of poetry is the individuals imagination. Like most of her poems she symbolizes nature as an art, only comparing human life to that of natures. As an example from Wild Geese, " Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers." In this part of the poem, Mary Oliver identifies natures freeness with the freeness of human life. Her style in the poem Wild Geese is easy for a reader to relate too. As readers we know that she is explaining freedom, but freedom from what? Towards the end of the poem she writes about freedom of imagination, which is delicately portrayed by the imagery of the Wild Geese. "Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting" In another piece of Mary Oliver's writings At Great Pond she compares nature to herself. The turning point of the poetry is when she says " Later, I will consider what I have seen, what it can signify". In this Mary Oliver poems she compares not only humans to nature, but herself with nature. First, she describes the unseen morning at a pond. Later, in the poem she reaches a turning point which is clearly obtainable for readers to understand, " I will consider what I have seen, what it can signify". While the readers are generally thinking, " I will consider what I have read, what can it signify?" At the end of the poem she put herself and nature together combini...