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Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
Wild Geese, a 1925 Canadian novel by Martha Ostenso; The Wild Geese (Carney novel), a 1978 novel by Daniel Carney; The Wild Geese, a 1911 Japanese novel by Ōgai Mori; The Temple of the Wild Geese, a 1961 Japanese novella by Tsutomu Mizukami; Wild Geese, a 1986 poem by Mary Oliver
The Mary Oliver poem "Can You Imagine" was unveiled Friday, June 14, 2024, on a picnic table at Beech Forest in Provincetown. ... Mary Oliver was a wash-ashore who felt at home on the Cape, living ...
Poppies (Mary Oliver poem) This page was last edited on 1 February 2021, at 22:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Lawless wrote nineteen works of fiction, biography, history, nature studies and poetry, many of which were widely read at the time. She is increasingly considered a major fiction writer of the late nineteenth century, and an early modernist innovator. She is often remembered for her Wild Geese poems (1902). Her books were:
The Wild Geese, a conversation between the author and the North Wind, is a melancholic poem on the theme of homesickness. It was set to music as Norlan' Wind and popularised by Angus singer and songmaker Jim Reid, [9] who also set to music other poems by Jacob and those other Angus poets such as Marion Angus and Helen Cruikshank. [10]
The tranquil and serene piece depicts the scene of wild geese flying and alighting by the water. The Qing dynasty Guqin Notation of Heavenly Sound Pavilion had an introduction: "Set against the clear autumn sky, the air is crisp and fresh, while the breeze remains calm, as does the sandbank by the water. Amidst clouds stretching for miles, wild ...
The date of creation of the lyrics are unknown. The inspiration for the poem is described in his memoirs The Wanderer Between Two Worlds: . I was lying as a war volunteer on the forest clearing plowed by grenades as I was a hundred nights before as a listening post and stared into the flickering light of the stormy night which was criss-crossed by the restless spotlights on German and French ...