Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Poetry and Language Exercise Based on Mary Oliver's A Poetry Handbook

 Sound and silence are important. On page 24, Mary Oliver makes a great comparison of 2 nouns, synonyms, with different sounds: stone and rock. She can see the smooth roundness of "stone." She can see the jagged edges of "rock." 

Poets of every level: Can you think of other examples of nouns that have similar meaning but contain different sounds?  

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