Wild Geese - Mary Oliver

What poetic device can be found in the following lines from "Wild Geese"? "Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, Are heading home again."

Alliteration

In "Wild Geese," where are the geese heading?

Home

What is NOT a major theme of the poem "Wild Geese"?

Asking for forgiveness

What does Oliver reassure the reader the they do NOT have to do?

Be fun

What image does Oliver use in "Wild Geese" to refer to raindrops?

Clear pebbles

For Oliver, the natural world she describes in "Wild Geese" should be a source of __________ for people.

Comfort

What poetic device can be found in the following lines from "Wild Geese"? "calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things."

Enjambment

Oliver reassures the readers of "Wild Geese" that they do not have to walk on what through the desert?

Knees

In "Wild Geese," Oliver assures the readers that it doesn't matter how __________ they are, beause everyone has a place in the world.

Lonely

What poetic device can be found in the following lines from "Wild Geese"? "You only have to let te soft animal of your body love what it loves."

Metaphor

In "Wild Geese," Oliver might be connecting the unsteady lives of some people to the __________ lives of wild geese:

Migratory

What poetic device can be found in the following lines from "Wild Geese"? "the world offers itself to your immagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - "

Simile

In "Wild Geese," what moves across the landscapes?

The sun and rain

In "Wild Geese," what calls out to the reader?

The world

What does the speaker of "Wild Geese" encourage the reader to share with them?

Their despair

What final message does the poem "Wild Geese" give readers about life?

They have a place in the world

What might be the reason the Oliver uses the word "Meanwhile" in the following lines from "Wild Geese"? ' "Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the praries and the deep trees, the mountains, and the rivers."

To emphasize the constancy of life.

By offering to share her own despair with readers in "Wild Geese," Oliver shows her own:

Vulnerability

What year was Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese" published?

1986

What does Oliver do to establish intimacy with the readers of "Wild Geese"?

Address the reader in the first line as "you"

What might the wild geese symbolize in the poem "Wild Geese"?

Freedom

In "Wild Geese," how is the sound of the wild geese described?

Harsh and exciting

In "Wild Geese," the main focus is on the connection between humans and what?

Nature

What is the reader meant to take comfort in after reading "Wild Geese"?

Nature and the world

Oliver's reference to "the soft animal of you body" in "Wild Geese" encourages humans to live:

On basic instincts

What is NOT a landscape mentioned by Oliver in "Wild Geese"?

Rainforests

In the following lines from "Wild Geese," what is a synonym of the word "repenting"? "You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting."

Regretting and atoning

What meaning does the use of the word "repenting" have in the following lines from "Wild Geese"? "You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting."

Religious

The poem "Wild Geese" contains all of the following poetic devices EXCEPT:

Rhyme

In the poem "Wild Geese," what does the idea of everyone having "a place in the family of things" suggest about the world?

That it is full of order