I hate this blog, it never let's me post---SOUND

When I read the chapter, I felt like Mary Oliver was having a conversation with me inside my room. I could hear her in my head and as she explained how rock and stone are used in different settings and why, I understood that sound is one of the most important parts of poems. Sound adds another layer to the already deep poetry of the world. At first I believed that this would be like every other time someone has tried to explain the dissections of poetry. I began to question if any poet every thought about how sound plays a role in their work because I never had. And then she explained "stone and rock." She said that she could see the "weather-softened roundness of stone" and the "juts and angled edges of rock" in her head and that was what I had been thinking ever since the first page of the chapter when she brought the difference up. As a reader, I could definitely tell that she had done her research on the pieces of poetry, but I didn't feel bad that I didn't know some of the things she was talking about. Oliver explains her ideas without being condescending; she conveys her thoughts without putting anyone down.