“Owls” by Mary Oliver Rhetorical Analysis Essay

In this excerpt from Owls Mary Oliver writes with grave, and pensive to consider her towards nature by indicating the complexities of bingles response towards nature. Her usage of figurative language to visualizing the surrounds of the flowers, her metaphors to control the interpretation of the horns and her imagery of the yin and yang point of view in her essay to fully describe the owls and the flowers. Olivers use of figurative diction produces a vivid image for the reader to engulf themselves in. The thrilling description of the great horned owl in a tree, depicting the owls a pure hunter of the world. The author explains that the owls are merciless against other animals generating a predator that is fearless in his hunt for his prey.The author is ever placing labels upon the owls much(prenominal) as death-bringer to associate the owl with the cause of death. The authors use of imagery to create a contrasting view of nature such as a yin and yang portray. The owl represents t he yin of these cynical unforgiving creatures of razor-tipped toes displaying a rough character that terrifies any other creatures. While the yang of the flowers is dream-like and serene red and pink and black-and-blue tents that truly embody the light and joy the two are compared even through their colors of these night and light characters of nature.Contrasting is a major condense which the author uses throughout the excerpt about the characters of nature. Oliver depicts the screech owl on her wrist to explain the complicated characters of nature. Even though this great horned owl is terrifying, Oliver still is in amazement of it. She says it would become the main purpose of her life. While the belly laugh of the rabbit in pain and hopelessness is terrible, it is not comparable with the scream of the owl which is of sheer rollicking glory. Nature has extremes, and the owl is the extreme of terror.The flowers, however, represent the extreme of happiness. Through parallelism, Oli ver exemplifies the happiness given by the fields of flowers. The flowers have sweetness, so palpable that it overwhelms Oliver. Henceforth, Oliver though the use of diction her creates shift in the tone of the piece from cynical to serene. By translating from death and predator-prey owls to immobilizing happiness flowers, she primarily use contrasting views and lots of imagery to convey her view of nature different characters.