Comparison of the Oven Bird and Egrets

“The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost and “Egrets” by Mary Oliver both creates an image of control. Man’s encroachment over nature is apparent in the poem by Robert Frost, as he portrays the image of a bird being unable to determine the change of seasons with her song due to overpowering “dust” from new roads and buildings. The subtle imagery in “Egrets” depicts the commanding effect of nature over man with a person struggling to walk through a closed darkened path only to stumble upon three egrets that are able to softly step over every dark thing currently possessing the person. Although different in how the commanding effect of man and nature is i

The poem “Egrets” shows quite the opposite illustration of man and nature. Similar to “The Oven Bird,” birds, or in this case three beautiful egrets, symbolize nature. However, unlike Frost’s poem, the egrets have much more authority over man. The person walking through the closed path in the forest struggles to wander through “scumbled leaves,” “fallen branches,” and “knotted catbrier”. Thorns strike her arms and mosquitoes constantly swarm around her “wheeling and whining”. When she arrives to the pond, she interrupts three egrets whereupon they, very much unlike the struggling human, “opened their wings softly and stepped over every dark thing”. The three egrets “even half-asleep has such faith in the world that had made

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