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When Death Comes by Mary Oliver. When death comes. like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse. to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes. like the measle-pox.
When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle-pox when death comes.
Mary Oliver. Mary Oliver (1935-2019) was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. She published several poetry collections, including Dog Songs: Poems (Penguin Books, 2015). When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes like the measle ...
‘When Death Comes’ transforms death from fear to a prompt for living fully, urging us to embrace life's wonders with open arms.
“When Death Comes” is one of Mary Oliver’s most remarkable poems originally published in New and Selected Poems (1992). It is a particularly impactful poem in which Oliver engages with the confusing and fearful subject of death. She does not take a conventional approach to death.
When death comes. like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse. to buy me, and snaps the purse shut; when death comes. like the measle-pox; when death comes. like an iceberg between the shoulder blades, I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
Technical analysis of When Death Comes literary devices and the technique of Mary Oliver.