There Is No Word For Goodbye Analysis

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Toby Beta, sci-fi author from Indonesia once said, “If you’re in a bad mood, take a deep breath. If you’re in a good mood, give thanks to god.” Sometimes in life people need to remember to always think happy thoughts, negative thoughts will get you nowhere in life. For example, in Mary Oliver’s “The Morning Walk” and in Mary Tallmountain’s “There is No Word For Goodbye”, the character's both have different moods due to the environment they are in. In, “The Morning Walk,” the animals wanted to express different ways of saying “thanks” but there were many different ways to say thanks, so everyone learned a lot of new ways to say “thanks”, than in the end everyone agrees that the best way to say thanks is how you want to say it. In this poem the mood feels cheerful and happy. It feels like a place you want to be in. In “There is No Word For Goodbye,” An aunt and her niece wanted to know another word for goodbye, but the aunt really doesn't want to talk about saying “goodbye”, so …show more content…

The poem appeals to your sense sight and hearing. Mary Oliver uses descriptions of what the animals do to say thanks to make her poem have a happy mood. The many moods the descriptions of the animals created are, excited, peaceful, joyful, and alert. Mary Oliver shows many ways to say one word. The animals are probably happy since trying to say thanks. In the poem it stated, “Goldfinches shine as they float through the air.” This description gives the reader a cheerful mood. When you think of a bird soaring in the air, you think about freedom, which is a good thing. Another description that shows the mood is happy is, “A person, sometimes, will hum a little Mahler.” This description also gives the reader a cheerful mood. When someone is humming admiring nature, he/she is probably have a good time, they probably feel happy. Mary Oliver uses positive words in her descriptions to instill a cheerful and joyful mood in

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