In the poem The Journey, Mary Oliver also affiliates to an extended metaphor of a physical journey as a metaphor to stand for the very personal, lonesome and painful journey in the direction of individual change that gets amply vivid as she says, “But you didn’t stop/ you knew what you had to do. you finally knew/ what you had to do.” By subscribing to this ponderous and wistful tone, the main objective of the poet is to capture the overall gravity of that moment when a person decides to be responsive to the inner voice within one so as to be able to live an authentic life.
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To convey the inherent meaning of the theme that the poet has affiliated to, the poet resorts to free verse with a meagre sprinkling of the internal rhyme as she says,”. The poet’s conception of her primary audience is benign and friendly and she intends to convey a message that is innately serious and insightful. If one attempts to discern the essential tone of the poet that is her innate sense of how she is perceived by the audience she is addressing, it comes out to as being quintessentially serious and sombre. In the poem The Journey, Mary Oliver supports this theme in a vivid and elaborate manner by resorting to the poetic devices like tone, metaphor and symbolism. Time and again Mary Oliver refers to the forces that push an individual to conform to the pressing social norms and the innate human capacity to set aside these norms so as to emerge to be a fulfilled individual. In the poem the poet refers to the distractions and the obligations that happen to hamper the journey of a person in the essential human quest to become an individual, and how the human intellect could set aside these distractions so as to listen to one’ consciousness, which continues to act as an ever present and benign guide. In The Journey, the poet Mary Oliver tends to refer to the journey of life that an individual undertakes on one’s way to maturity and fulfilment.
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