Mary Oliver Winter And The Nuthatch Summary

Nature, something of which can run rampant yet can be elegant, a feeling which may course through every being of this planet. Mary Oliver not only embraced it, she displayed it. She was a poet who wrote “Winter and the Nuthatch”, a poem which unveiled acceptance and bonds. The nuthatch represents the wilderness of nature, which then portrays the bond between humans and nature and the mere feeling of acceptance. The poem clearly represents the sincerity of our human bonds whilst also showing humanity. When the nuthatch finally trusted the speaker to eat out of their hand, it regarded the clear connection between the species of Earth. However, when the nuthatch was seen eating out of another person's hand the bond never dissipated, rather it became stronger. It signals to the speaker that there is always a variable that is out of your control, which you cannot do much about. This portrayed acceptance of not only nature,
The speaker acknowledges, “Nobody owns the sky or the trees”. Nobody owns the hearts of birds”(Oliver 17-18). It clearly represents symbolism, which shows the undomesticated behaviour of nature and how we can't control everything. The speaker seemed to enjoy the company of the bird as much as the amount of effort that was put into getting the bird's trust. Alongside that, the use of metaphors is clearly shown as nobody truly owns nature and its gifts, of which were bestowed upon us. All things nature, trees, animals, and even human beings, are all part of this natural web. Once they saw the bird feeding out of another person's hand, they didn't say anything. Nevertheless, being human means that we have emotional connections which can be formed between nature and humans. Alongside this, when Mary Oliver says, ““Still, being human and partial therefore to my own successes-” (Oliver 19-20), the acceptance of being human alongside the acceptance of the fact that we cannot control nature's