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| | Wild Geese Summary & Essays - Mary Oliver |
 | | “Wild Geese,” which first appeared in Mary Oliver’s Dream Work, published in 1986, is one of the poet’s most anthologized poems. |
 | | In it, she explores the connection between the human mind, nature in general, and wild geese in particular. |
 | | In “Wild Geese,” she encourages the reader to be more imaginative and to shed loneliness by discovering his or her place “in the family of things”—namely, the family of sun and rain, prairies and trees, mountains, rivers, and, ultimately, wild geese flying home. |
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