Talk:Mary Oliver

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Contents 1 Things I'd like to add: 2 Quote 3 Plagerism 4 WikiProject class rating

[edit] Things I'd like to add:

• Influences: Millay, especially in Oliver's early work; James Wright, her mentor at Ohio State; Whitman; British Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Keats); perhaps May Swenson?
• Her development over time. Moving way away from tightly-structured poems toward prose poems?
• Discussion of Oliver's popular appeal (rare for a "critically-acclaimed" poet). This would be a good place to address the common criticism that her language is simplistic and repetitive. Does she deliberately make her work accessible?
• How she approaches nature: joyful without being sentimental/naive
• "Non-nature" themes: eg, her father, Buddhism, the Holocaust
• Oliver's own scholarly interests
• Quotations, of course, in support of topics above
• A photograph of Oliver, and perhaps of the Provincetown wetlands

amysayrawr 16:36, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Quote

Which book is it out of: "Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth or the beak of an owl?" (because I would like to place one or two quotes in the article). Thanks, Scriberius 06:21, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plagerism

About this whole article is plagerised from [1]

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 23:35, 27 August 2007 (UTC)