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4 pages in length. The writer compares Jorie Graham's "The Geese" with Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" and John Keats' "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" with Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time." Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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geese to discuss the passage of time: Grahams approach contemplates human mortality (Graham 12-13), while Oliver discusses the overall concept of existence (Oliver PG).
Each poem possesses many important components of time passage that, if not taken in their direct context, will be overlooked by the average reader. It is essential to
also look beyond the authors obvious intention with regard to each poems overall meaning so as not to miss the grand but elusive subtleties. To be sure, Grahams writing
incorporates a significant amount of blatancy while Olivers implies considerable obscurity, a dichotomy that has served to be the cornerstone of each authors works, which have successfully stood the test
of time. "Mary Oliver helps us learn to be at home with Earth [and] helps us honor ourselves as parts of Earth" (Mary Oliver). Without question, Wild Geese
and The Geese provide a unique insight into the relationships that exist between and among the passage of time, how different people perceive this passage and what one contemplates when
its reality is brought squarely into ones path. "To Graham, the geese flying overhead are a kind of language, a key to another meaning. Graham is a poet that
inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistencies in this world and her life" (Words in Flight).
The common denominator between Graham and Oliver is how they both illustrate how the very nature of perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern
as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly unique to human beings. Man looks upon his world as a direct
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