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A 3 page analysis of The Snow Cricket by Mary Oliver. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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reader. Her poem speaks of the snow cricket and of lilies, urging the reader to feel the emotional symbolism present in the world of nature. The following paper analyzes this
aspect of Olivers poem. The Snow Cricket by Mary Oliver In first understanding this poem, and poetry of Oliver, one critic
illustrates how "Oliver writes out of the Romantic tradition of devotional nature poetry" (Manister). Her poems focus on the power and symbolic realities of nature and as such "her vision
of nature is celebratory and religious in the deepest sense" (Poetry). Clearly her work focuses on the power and the intricacy of nature, as well as the spiritual and enlightening
conditions found in nature. In The Snow Cricket the narrator is examining, and listening to, a cricket and in that sound the
narrator feels a sense of loneliness as the cricket apparently hopes to find another cricket. The narrator states, "by singing I mean, in this instance,/ not just the work of
the little mouth-cave,/ but of every enfoldment of the body/ a singing that has no words....built of loneliness (Oliver 8-11, 15). This cricket is beyond the lilies and the narrator
seems to be unable to really remain and listen to the lonely song, stating, "in truth I couldnt wait to see if another would come to it/ for fear that
it wouldnt,/ and I wouldnt be able to bear it./ I wished it good luck, with all my heart (Oliver 24-27). In these excerpts one feels that there is a
powerful loneliness, a crying out that the narrator could not ultimately bear. This can symbolically be representative of an individuals desire to find another, to not be alone, and perhaps
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