Sleeping In The Forest By Mary Oliver

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“Sleeping In the Forest” is a poem by Mary Oliver that talks about her physically sleeping in the woods and what she has observed. She describes every detail from the insects and bugs to the stars in the sky. In the poem, Oliver makes it seem as if she is one with nature as she is “rising and falling” and going from her “luminous doom” into “something better”. The poem sets a calm and peaceful tone as she is giving the readers a look into her experience in the forest. This poem expresses many different themes such as hope, peace, and death. Her choice of words is one of the reasons why people can interpret different themes. In lines 14 and 15 she states, “I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.” These lines convey that

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