Summary Of Wild Geese By Wendy Perkins - 916 Words

Imagination is a person’s escape from the reality around them. Life is hard, there is no way to dispute that, people struggle every day. In Mary Oliver’s poem, â€Å"Wild Geese,† Mary writes about the torture of everyday life that people have to go through, but that those people also get an escape through their imagination. Mary explains that with imagination a person feels free on a whole different level, a more spiritual level. Life is full of letdowns and disappointments, but people have to push through. â€Å"Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine/Meanwhile the world goes on† (Lines 5-6), Mary states that people are full of sorrow, but life goes on and a person’s imaginations continues to grow. In the critical essay written on, â€Å"Wild Geese† by Wendy Perkins, Wendy states, â€Å"In ‘Wild Geese,’ Oliver explores how we have been oppressed by these ‘constructions of culture’ and offers us frui tful, fresh alternatives† (1). Wendy is stating that, Mary was aware of people’s everyday misery and blamed in on the restrictions that came with their culture. The alternative offer is the person’s imagination, it is technique a fresh view on life because in a person’s imagination their life can be whatever they want it to be. Nature will always in a person’s life, it is everywhere, it is lush, fresh, and lively, but a person usually does not connect with nature on more than a, â€Å"Wow that is a beautiful flower, level. â€Å"Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain /are