Mary Oliver...The Summer Day?

Question

What do you think the overall point and impression was made by the poem?

Answer 1

The Summer Day

Mary Oliver

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don't know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

from New and Selected Poems, 1992
Beacon Press, Boston, MA

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I really like the poem called The Summer Day. The main theme that I got out of it was that we should live our lives day by day because we never know when it will end. I came to this conclusion because in the poem a grasshopper is on the person's hand and then the poem says that eventually it will fly away. A couple of lines later it says that everything will come to end which is including people. Then it asks what you plan do. I think that this means that we should have a plan to live our life in the best way. I think that it is very true and that is how I live my life. I always try to live my life like it is my last and I always take the full potential that I have as a person. We all have our own plans in life, but we just have to fulfill them. One of my pet-peeves in life is when people don’t live their life or skill to their full potential. I think that this poem is very inspirational and has so much meaning.

I also really liked in the poem how they explained life and how your dreams should be fulfilled. The poem talks about a grasshopper being on someone’s hand and wiping its eyes and moving its jaws and then the grasshopper flies away. The poem was referring to grasshopper being precious just like life. Eventually the poem goes into how everything comes to an end at sometime and how precious life is. I guess you really don’t want to think about dying, but you know that it will eventually happen so you should take every day one day at a time.

This poem reminds me of times in the summer when I am sitting outside and letting time go by. At that time of the year I don't have school to our about, and I just sit and relax as well as think about things that are going on in my life. The image of me sitting outside sounds so good to me right now in the cold winter. The cool air breeze and the sun on me is so nice.

I really liked the sound of this poem a lot. The speaker did a great job of explaining the grasshopper. I could almost see the grasshopper in my hand as I was reading it. I almost could even hear the sound of the grasshopper‘s wings as it flew away.

The second element of poetry that I saw in this poem was the imagery. In this poem, a lot of the meaning comes from the grasshopper. As it is on your hand you can feel it as well as hear it fluttering away as I said before. When I read this poem I almost can feel a breeze touching me. I liked how this poem was read smoothly even though it didn’t rhyme.



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Mary Oliver...The Summer Day?
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Mary Oliver is without question my favorite poet. She has this sense of wonder and awe at life and nature that astounds me. Even more astounding is that she had an abusive childhood, yet she is always enamored of life and the goodness of Life. Every blade of grass is sacred for her.

I think the final line of this poem tells you everything you need to know.

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