https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4 Mary Oliver en-us 2019-02-28 01:37:29 UTC 2019-02-28 03:09:30 UTC hello@padlet.com brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336224199 I read this poem many times to try and figure out what she was trying to say. I like the fact that Mary compared T.V remotes to different setting on a washer or dryer. This poem is a long line, followed by a short kind of response line. I never thought of these every day objects as decision making. After reading this poem, it makes me think she doesn't like making decisions. Mary wants a simple life, not having to make little decisions every time she wants to wash her clothes, watch T.V or make a phone call. Reading this I can imagine myself everyday making little decisions all day.]]> 2019-02-28 01:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336224199 brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336227925 This poem is saying that many things have changed throughout time but not everything does change or has the meaning change. Mary states "some things don't alter with time". The meaning of a first kiss meant the same then and still means the thing now as she describes in this poem. The first and last stanza are very similar and mean the same thing. I think Mary wants people to realize that many things change but only few near do. I like how she uses the word "Rhyme" in a poem that doesn't rhyme. This makes me think that maybe the word "Rhyme" hasn't changed]]> 2019-02-28 01:57:27 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336227925 brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336230873 I can relate to this poem the most. The feeling I got when I read this made me think of all the time I have spent waiting for a certain person to feel the same way about me. "A dull hangover of waiting" is my favorite line. Even if I don't know or aren't supposed to know what a hangover feels like, if you ask anyone they all know the feeling and can describe them. The last two lines helps me for some reason picture the face of this feeling I got in the beginnging of reading this poem. ]]> 2019-02-28 02:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336230873 brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336233575 I can pictrue every movement this poem is describing and everything he is thinking. "I woke and crept like a cat" is a great usage of imagery. I can picture him tip toeing and sneaking trying to be quite to see this other person sleeping. This reminds me of how sometimes when I get up to get a drink of water at night, I will go out of my way to see my brother sleeping in his room snuggled in with his dog. Maybe Mary did this herself one night or morning and that was what inspired her to write this type of poem.]]> 2019-02-28 02:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336233575 brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336234763 Everyone has a place they go when things get over whelming or they have reached there breaking point. Somewhere where they feel as if time as stopped and everything is silent. Mary has written about that spot of hers like that in this poem. "What's magical, sometimes, has deeper roots than reason" this line of the poem made me think that most. I think Mary out that in to make people think what she means because you can interpret that line many different ways. ]]> 2019-02-28 02:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336234763 brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336236281 Reading the first part of this poem had me thinking of a dream of being able to insert myself into a story book and be with the characters. Toward the end this is more of learning about why a person in the old days painted the horses blue. "Shrapnel" is my favorite word in this because I can visualize the way he died and the use of his brain. Mary was trying in understand why Franz would paint the horses purple and what the horses thought of his actions.]]> 2019-02-28 02:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336236281 brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336237517 I feel like after reading this poem I learned a lot about Mary and her parents. She must of been a only child, who both parents wanted her to follow in their footsteps. "I opened windows, they shut them" this line of there poem has the most imagery. When you want to do something but your parents tell you no. The structure of this poem was more of two paragraphs not different stanzas. ]]> 2019-02-28 02:44:50 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336237517 brittanymuir https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336239306 When I was little I had many stuffed animals, that I named and gave feelings to. If one didn't get to sleep with me, I thought they felt left out so the next night that one would sleep with me. Mary is wondering if stones have feeling? Do they drown in the water? "Are the clouds glad to unburden their bundles of rain?", she is wondering if clouds feel a need of relief after raining. After reading that line I can fully see a unhappy cloud with rain, then after raining it turns its frown upside down.]]> 2019-02-28 02:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/brittanymuir/i200y4e9ydx4/wish/336239306