Similarities Between Mary Oliver And Pablo Neruda

“Nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts”-Mary Oliver’s Sleeping in a forest “The world is a glass of overflowing water”-Pablo Neruda Ode to sleep. In both, quotes from Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda, they convey an appreciation of nature to the reader by involving the reader. They convey the appreciation of nature by using a variety of figurative speech that is about nature and that is about the reader so that they stay interested. The two authors also use different forms of poems; In Sleeping in a forest, it’s more soothing and calm, while Ode to sleep is more serious, yet still relaxing. Stylistically, Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda, both convey an appreciation of nature by changing their form and including a variety of figurative language in each stanza that involves the reader.
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The structure, or form, of Sleeping in a forest and Ode to sleep are very different, meaning that they both have their separate styles making them unique. Sleeping in a forest is a Narrative poem because it’s a story being told in a first-person view, while Ode to sleep is a free-verse poem, meaning that it’s inconsistent and doesn’t need to follow any rules. This is visible in their separate works; “I thought the Earth remembered me”-Mary Oliver Sleeping in a forest, and “under the trees light has dropped from the top of the sky, light like a green latticework of branches”-Pablo Neruda Ode to Sleep. In Mary Oliver’s quote, you can easily recognize that it’s a narrative story because Mary Oliver refers to herself and her thoughts. In Pablo Neruda’s quote, you can see how it’s free-verse because it doesn’t rhyme and isn’t consistent. There are many ways to write poems, and each way has its own uniqueness, but either way you can see how Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda use these different forms of poetry to convey an appreciation of nature and to keep the reader’s