In “Beyond the Red River,” McGrath looks out at the North Dakota prairie and embraces winter.
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Tag Archives: Mary Oliver
A Poem for Entering December
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Trusting the Gift Within
Merwin’s “Gift” helps us understand the meaning of Advent.
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Oliver: My Work Is Loving the World
in Mary Oliver’s “Messenger,” the poet provides insight into what it means to live forever.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Each and All", "Messenger", All the Pretty Horses, Auguries of Innocence, Cormac McCarthy, Easter, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Resurrection, Secret Garden, Tintern Abbey, William Blake, William Wordsworth Comments closed
On Watching Spring Come In
Thomas Gray’s beautiful “Ode on the Spring” looks to the insect world for lessons on life.
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A Mary Oliver Poem for Lent
Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” works as a Lenten poem but departs from medieval notions of what Lent involves.
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Running into the Fire
Oliver and Whyte have poems about running toward fire, an unsettling metaphor during this fire season but thematically sound.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Fire in the Earth", "Fire", David Whyte, John the Baptist, Moses Comments closed
Going Gently into That Good Night–Or Not
In which I pull on Kenyon, Dylan Thomas, Conrad, Chandler, Lawrence and others in an attempt to penetrate the mysteries of dying.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Do Not Go Gentle", "Fern Hill", "In Blackwater Woods", "Let Evening Come", Big Sleep, D. H. Lawrence, death and dyiing, Dylan Thomas, Heart of Darkness, Jane Kenyon, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, Sons and Lovers Comments closed