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On Being with Krista Tippett
The speaker described Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" as a poem that has saved lives, and was written as an exercise in end-stopped lines, with the poem surprising her with its depth and resonance.
Wild Geese is in DreamWork. And I've heard people talk about that Wild Geese as a poem that has saved lives.
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The speaker described Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" as a poem that has saved lives, and was written as an exercise in end-stopped lines, with the poem surprising her with its depth and resonance.
Wild Geese is in DreamWork. And I've heard people talk about that Wild Geese as a poem that has saved lives.
This is the magic of it. That poem was written as an exercise in end stopped lines. As an exercise in what?
And I heard the Wild Geese. I mean, I just started out to do this for this friend and show her the effect of the line end is, you've said something definite.
And I think that's what it is. And but you know what I want there was it also though there's something about this passage about her talking about wild geese, that it was an exercise in a form. Right?
That poem was written as an exercise in end-stopped lines. As an exercise in what?