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ABSTRACT

The aim of this paper is to analyze Mary Oliver’s “Death at a Great Distance”

from the viewing platform of stylistics analysis. This stylistics analysis shelters the

different features such as lexical, morphological, and phonological patterns. Also found

tropes and schemes that are present in the poem. This research is helpful to analyze

the structure and style of Mary Oliver’s poetry, and her on views, tones and treatment of

nature by using different stylistic devices.

INTRODUCTION

Mary Oliver became born on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio. As a

youngster, she lived briefly within the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, New

York, where she helped Millay's circle of relatives.

In the mid-1950s, Oliver attended each Ohio Country College and Vassar

University, though she did have the degree.

Her first collection of poems, No Voyage, and Other Poems, was published in

1963. She went on to publish more than fifteen collections of poetry, including Blue

Horses (Penguin Press, 2014); A Thousand Mornings (Penguin Press, 2012); Swan:

Poems and Prose Poems (Beacon Press, 2010); Red Bird (2008); Thirst (2006); Why I

Wake Early (2004); Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays (2003); Winter

Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems (Mariner Books, 1999); West

Wind (1997); White Pine (1994); New and Selected Poems (1992), which won the

National Book Award; House of Light (1990), which won the Christopher Award and the

L. L. Winship PEN New England Award; and American Primitive (1983), for which she

won the Pulitzer Prize.

Oliver, who referred to Walt Whitman as an impact, is most popular for her

stunningness filled, frequently confident, reflections on and perceptions of nature. "Mary

Oliver’s verse is a phenomenal antitoxin for the overabundance of civilization, " thought

of one commentator for the Harvard Survey, "for an excessive amount of whirlwind and

heedlessness, and the ornate shows of our social and expert lives. She is an artist of

intelligence and liberality whose vision permits us to take a gander at a world not of our

making."

Her honors incorporate an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a

Lannan Literary Award, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize and

Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and

the National Endowment for the Arts.

Oliver held the Catharine Osgood Cultivate Foster Chair for Distinguished

Instructing at Bennington School until 2001. She lived for more than forty years in

Provincetown, Massachusetts, with her partern Molly Malone Cook, a picture taker and

exhibition proprietor. After the death of Malone Cook in 2005, Oliver later moved toward

the southeastern shoreline of Florida. Mary Oliver died of cancer at the age of 83 in

Hobe Sound, Florida, on January 17, 2019.

One of the poem that Oliver wrote is entitled, “Death at a Great Distance” which

talks about the speaker’s observation of some poisonous mushrooms and thinks that

eating would kill the speaker in the poem, though there is no deeper reflection of what

would happen to the speaker’s body than remarking that this thought was not pursued.

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ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to analyze Mary Oliver’s “Death at a Great Distance” from the viewing platform of stylistics analysis. This stylistics analysis shelters the different features such as lexical, morphological, and phonological patterns. Also found tropes and schemes that are present in the poem. This research is helpful to analyze the structure and style of Mary Oliver’s poetry, and her on views, tones and treatment of nature by using different stylistic devices. INTRODUCTION Mary Oliver became born on September 10, 1935, in Maple Heights, Ohio. As a youngster, she lived briefly within the home of Edna St. Vincent Millay in Austerlitz, New York, where she helped Millay's circle of relatives. In the mid-1950s, Oliver attended each Ohio Country College and Vassar University, though she did have the degree. Her first collection of poems, No Voyage, and Other Poems, was published in 1963. She went on to publish more than fifteen collections of poetry, including Blue Horses (Penguin Press, 2014); A Thousand Mornings (Penguin Press, 2012); Swan: Poems and Prose Poems (Beacon Press, 2010); Red Bird (2008); Thirst (2006); Why I Wake Early (2004); Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays (2003); Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems (Mariner Books, 1999); West Wind (1997); White Pine (1994); New and Selected Poems (1992), which won the National Book Award; House of Light (1990), which won the Christopher Award and the L. L. Winship PEN New England Awa ...
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