Mary Oliver’s poem, similar to Quammen’s, Face of a Spider, at first gives the reader a short opportunity to more deeply think about the creatures in nature. As you read both Quammen and Oliver, the reader is able to imagine shrinking down in size and ‘grinning through their many teeth, looking for seeds, suet, sugar; muttering and humming, opening the breadbox…” (Oliver 4). Oliver uses a very common and descriptive tone in writing this poem. She explains her emotion of a frightened excitement when she’s not sure what was making the noise at her door. She describes how fear took over her body, yet the fact that she continues to step outside her house, allows the reader to believe that the fear she is experiencing, is also pushing a sort of curiosity into her brain. Relating to what we talked about in class, Mary Oliver also describes the fear that comes along with not fully understanding nature. She shows a fantastic image of how our imaginations about an unknown nature can allow our minds to create a monster-like image of what is in nature. From the way she writes, similar to Dillard, Oliver expresses her views about the not so obvious parts of nature; the peculiar and the unseen.
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