Mary Oliver

The first poem "Wild Geese" reminds me of a song calld "Surrender Saved My Life." What I liked about this poem was that there were phrases that were very descriptive. These include phrases like "you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting". This is descriptive because it tells something, or how someone is doing something.
I also liked the poem "A Visitor". This poem describes what a person did, in my opinion of the poem, by ignoring his father. If themain character had actually loved his father, then they would have had a good relationship, but instead, the main character ignored his father, and not until the end of the poem did they see love in each other's eyes.

Reading - The Hobbit

My first impressions of The Hobbit is that I think it will be a good book. I've just gotten to the part where all of the dwarves come to Bilbo's hole in the hill, but I still think it will be a good book. I found interesting so far that Gandalf put a marking on Bilbo's door, but Bilbo never saw it, and is trying to convince the dwarfs that there was never a mark on his door. I am enjoying this novel, though I haven't read very much. J.R.R. Tolkein's writing style is very different than most books that I've read. There are in some places over explaining, in my opinion. I am making no connections with my self and this novel yet.