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Analysis Of Crossing The Swamp By Mary Oliver

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In the poem, “Crossing the swamp”, Mary Oliver makes the swamp a resemblance of her and her life. And how we so often get “stuck in the mud”. In the line that says “here is swamp, here is struggle”, Oliver very bluntly put, the swamp is her struggle. Her day to day, life is a constant struggle to which she feels as if she is constantly being pulled down and not being able to achieve her full potential in whatever it is she chooses to do. The relationship between the author, Mary Oliver and the swamp is a relationship of the inevitable. At some point in all of our lives we will hit a bump in the road and get stuck in the mud for a period of time, or at least feel as if we are stuck in the mud. Life throws us so much that we sometimes think we
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