3 Most Interesting Poems

1. "The Trail is Not a Trail" - Gary Snyder
2. "Gee, You're so Beautiful that It's Starting to Rain" - Richard Brautigan
3. "Wild Geese" - Mary Oliver

"The Trail is Not a Trail" by Gary Snyder makes my think of someone who doesn't have many options in life at an early age but then as the person continues to work and continues to move forward more options become available until everything is available like in Snyder's last sentence, "Everywhere to go."  Another way of thinking about this poem is the literal meaning of just taking a trip into the wild, the roots of life where there are no roads, no rules, and you can go anywhere you want; the true definition of Freedom.

"Gee, You're so Beautiful that It's Starting to Rain" by Richard Brautigan is humerous in the fact that he relates the girl's beauty to the grades you get on a school report card.  I also took it as he saying that she is his top priority rather than school, but he is intertwinning the two important things at the time for a teenager.  Brautigan probably thought of this poem in high school or college.

"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver makes me think that you have to trust your instincts like geese do as they migrate thousands of miles as she states, "You only have to let the soft animal of yuour body love what it loves."  Yet my mindset changes when she ask to tell her about somone's despair and she'll tell them her's and at the time the world still goes on.  It's like when a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship is broken and each side goes to their friends to talk about it.  If it was a bad break up then both sides would be hurt and it would feel like the world has stopped or that they are stuck in life, but as we all know, time doesn't stop and love hurts.  They have to move on with their lives like "the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscape."