Question

01/18/20

be original and use your own words

I'd like you to closely read "Oxygen" by Mary Oliver on page 373 and provide an original response to the poem. In your response, I'd like you to consider denotation (the dictionary definition of a word), connotation (the associations one brings to a word), and tone (the speaker's attitude toward the subject matter). Though this is a poem about someone who is seriously ill, its tone isn't sad. Why? In what sense might this celebration of oxygen be considered a love poem?

Mary Oliver (B. 1935) Oxygen 2005 Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine stands in our house working away in its lung-like voice. I hear it as I kneel before the fire, stirring with a stick of iron, letting the logs lie more loosely. You, in the upstairs room, are in your usual position, leaning on your right shoulder which aches all day. You are breathing patiently; it is a beautiful sound. It is your life, which is so close to my own that I would not know where to drop the knife of separation. And what does this have to do with love, except

Answer 1

No, it's not a sad poem even though if this is about a person who is seriously ill ,because the writer is explaining about a life, about an energy that is inspiring and energizing even that weak and sick person about the beauty of air that is helping him to live to love his life

Even though if we will take it to the the scientific way then too the poem is not sad

first line explains it self very well that every bone, muscle of that sick person needs oxygen to srvives as it helps in making 'ATP,' the energy to work and without oxygen every organ of that person will die if we will consider that person's body as earth then oxygen is it's soul. Our lungs and heart are working like a machine the whole day without any rest their sounds can be heard when someone will come down to that person's chest they are like lub dub lub dub. The right atrium is on the upper portion of the hear which collect all the blood and now this collected blood will move through the pulmonary arteries and reaches to the junction know as capillaries that has very thin membrane through which the oxygen will be exchanged to non oxygenated blood.

'What does it has to do with love except everything' heart is the organ that pumps the blood very fastly due to the effect of androgens which makes us happier more happier.

'Now the fire rises and offer's deep red roses of flames'means now the blood is fully oxygenated 'then it settles to quiteude or gratitude as it feeds as we all do 'it means the oxygen will reach to all the organs of our body after binding with heamoglobin