their compositions. Mary Oliver exhibits this technique by incorporating her tough childhood into her poetry. “…with words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation” (Shriver). As a result of her sufferings, Oliver also turned to nature for inspiration. Mary Oliver’s works focused on her observations in nature, which provided an escape from reality. Mary Oliver’s experiences in life
their compositions. Mary Oliver exhibits this technique by incorporating her tough childhood into her poetry. “…with words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation” (Shriver). As a result of her sufferings, Oliver also turned to nature for inspiration. Mary Oliver’s works focused on her observations in nature, which provided an escape from reality. Mary Oliver’s experiences in life
being “this country’s best-selling poet” Mary Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. Publishing her first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poetry, in 1963 at the age of 28 she was able to begin her lustrous career which continued as she published several more series, one of them being the Pulitzer Prize winner, American Primitive. Critic Alicia Ostriker numbered Oliver among America’s finest poets, as “visionary as Ralph Waldo Emerson.” As a youth Mary Oliver did not have the ideal childhood most
Other than Native American works, most of the works read for the class seemed to stem from or at least were influenced by some vein of Christian thinking. This can’t be helped because the western world has been influenced by Christianity for centuries, and the foundational values still recognized in this country in particular are protestant, even if they’re not blatantly proclaiming the faith. In fact, we even read through a few chapters of the Bible because the common theme and justification of