Tag Archives: Mary Oliver

Out of Pain We Feed This Feverish Plot

By Robin Bates | Published: January 21, 2023

Oliver captures Christian fish imagery in “The Fish.”

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No Other Pear Can Compare

By Robin Bates | Published: December 27, 2022

Poet Helen Mitsios’s ecstatic praise of Harry and David pears.

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Oliver on the Cruel Beauty of Cold

By Robin Bates | Published: December 25, 2022

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

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Oliver’s “Bobcat” as an Advent Poem

By Robin Bates | Published: December 17, 2022

Mary Oliver’s “Bobcat” can be read as a poem about the Advent promise.

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French Team Resembles a Skunk Cabbage

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2022

How is the French soccer team like a skunk cabbage? I show how using a Mary Oliver poem.

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the passing of all shining things

By Robin Bates | Published: October 13, 2022

e.e. cummings has a dialogue with Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” in his own poem about autumn. I include Frost and Oliver in the reflection as well.

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If You Find Joy, Give in to It

By Robin Bates | Published: May 12, 2022

End your week on an upbeat note with Mary Oliver’s “Don’t Hesitate.”

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Add the Climate to a Week of Disasters

By Robin Bates | Published: May 9, 2022

Mary Oliver’s poem on climate change mixes wonder and sadness.

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Out of Black Ponds, Water Lillies

By Robin Bates | Published: April 16, 2022

“Morning Poem” works as an Easter poem because every morning, as Oliver sees it, is a mini-resurrection.

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