"The Journey" by Mary Oliver and Sample Literary Analysis

  "One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice...
...a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
...kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper into the world..."
-from Mary Oliver's "The Journey"

Look below the fold for the poem in its entirety, an accompanying literary analysis by Ms. K, and guidelines for your literary analysis papers.