Within this chapter Mary Oliver discusses the importance and prominence of sound found within poetry. Now I will try and keep my personal opinions on Mary Oliver’s guide to writing poetry in a way that she approves of to myself and stick strictly to discussing her somewhat farfetched ideas on how awesome consonants are and apparently the letter w is vowel. The first topic that Mary Oliver discusses is the principle the words that sound different have different pronunciations and connotations, I was especially thankful for this section of the chapter because my lowly diminutive non Mary Oliver approved of brain could have never figured out on its own that “slow down” and “hurry up” could possibly SOUND different. The next thing that Mary Oliver goes on to rant from her soapbox about is vowels and constants because everyone who is trying to expand their knowledge of poetry like being told {expletive deleted] they learned in third grade. Then Oliver delves deeper into something that no one ever really thought need any more attention with stuff like somewhat constants, semi vowels, heartbroken owls, loose bowels, W is vowel now because she said so. Next Mary Oliver goes on to explain how different words that share a similar meaning are actually used in different situations thanks Mary Oliver never would have figured that one out on my own. The last thing I noticed while leafing through this chapter is some ramblings about double LLs or something.
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