My Understanding Of The Poem-Wild Geese By Mary Oliver

It appears to be a heart-to-heart conversation between the poet and the reader.

The poet uses the elements of nature to convey her message to us in a very beautiful and a scenic manner which makes us feel like we are experiencing nature itself.

She says that we do not have to be good and to move on with our lives rather than asking for pardon so focusing on the beauty of life as well as surviving its everyday challenges and difficulties. She asks us to love ourselves and not be drowned in our miseries and that the world goes on no matter what, suggesting that we are not the only ones to have to face difficulties while it is our human tendency to look at our difficulties being higher than the others .But having said that offers her shoulders to lean on. The mention of wild geese, suggests that people are like wild geese because both wild geese and humans have a place in this world.

“The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting— over and over announcing your place in the family of things” tells us that the calling of the world to humans is like the calling of the wild geese in a sense that they’re both harsh and exciting and that to be imaginative and to shed loneliness by discovering our place “in the family of things”namely, the family of sun and rain, prairies and trees, mountains, rivers, and, ultimately, wild geese flying home.

Thus in this way,a poem so casually written manages to be stimulating and very powerful!