Tag Archives: "Cold Poem"

Oliver: With Intense Cold Comes Honesty

Mary Oliver says that cold can force us to get real.

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Oliver on the Cruel Beauty of Cold

In “Cold Poem,” Mary Oliver finds a positive life message in bitter cold conditions.

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Lessons from Being Cold & Depressed

Thursday The polar vortex that is freezing America’s northern states gives me an excuse to rerun a post I wrote on Mary Oliver’s “Cold Poem.” If you want a silver lining for extreme cold, Oliver has one. Reprinted from January 8, 2014 Much of the United States is caught in extremely cold temperatures at the […]

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What Extreme Cold Teaches Us

As Coleridge and Mary Oliver teach us, when we are trapped in extreme cold, we come to value life.

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