WILD GEESE by Mary Oliver
My perspective on this poem is that the poet speaks of nature and how it goes with humanity, how we as human beings can relate with wild geese.
Mary Oliver, in the poem Wild Geese, suggests that people are like wild geese. Oliver says people can suffer and be in despair if they want to, but if they take one look, they can see that the wild geese are heading home and they each know their place in this world. It is about finding a place for yourself in this vast world where you seem to fit and get a feeling or sense of belonging-ness.
This relates to humans because like wild geese, people matter and people belong.
She says that you don't have to prove to others that you are the best by wearing out your body and later regretting, but just be yourself and love your body for who you are.
You don't need to be please everyone, let others accept you and like you for who you are, a self filled with flaws and imperfections.Nobody can ever be perfect and you don't have to be either.
Be free and let go of your inhibitions, this is like the wild geese in a sense that they are wild and are able to do whatever they want.
She tell us to share our sorrows and worries and she would do the same back in return.
There's no point in repenting because the world will go on so we have to learn to move on with it too.
She asks us to enjoy Nature and its beauty as the world passes by through rain or sun.
I think she is reminding us that we are like the wild geese, who are free and wild in their own world and we should to be more like them and learn to live life with no regrets. We,like them, should respond to our environment in a natural, animalistic way.
Animals don't have a concept of right and wrong, they don't punish themselves for behavior that is in their nature. She is telling us that we should exult in our bodies and not change for others or how society wants us to be and do not be ashamed of being ourselves.
Whoever we are or want to be, whether we are lonely or not we still have the world to ourselves to which offers us alot of scope for imagination.
It is about finding one's place in the world and accepting life for what it is. The poet says that we as people should not spend our whole life repenting for living our lives. The message is to embrace life as well as nature and to do whatever makes you happy in life, rather than focusing our mistakes. She goes on to elaborate on this point to say that the world is calling to us, comparing this to the call of wild geese. Though life can be "harsh", it can also be "exciting" and people should go out and live life to the fullest. Because wild geese are free and we should live like free birds out in the wild and just be yourself because in the end its your life that your living and not something the outside world or society wants you to portray so you don't need to live your life and act according to other's whims and fancies.
Life isn't a drama where society decides which role or part we have or need to play.
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