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Summary Of Sleeping In The Forest By Mary Oliver
Sleeping in the Forest by Mary Oliver is a poem which, as with other poems she has written, connects things in nature to human experience and feeling. The first line held my full attention saying "I thought the earth remembered me," as I did not know at first why Oliver included the word thought. After closer examination and re-reading responses to this poem from Discussion Number 1, I came to the conclusion that this line could be talking about some sort of death, or what happens in the mind directly before it. Some say that the earth never forgets, which must be what Mary Oliver is reflecting on. If the earth never forgets, why had it not remembered her? However, looking back to the second to fourth lines, "she took me back so tenderly, arranging
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