The Big Two Hearted River by Ernest Hemingway is a story of nature’s place in the heart of a young man named Nick. I believe that The Wild Geese by Mary Oliver is most reflective of the short journey we see Nick go through in Hemingway’s short story. Both styles of writing utilize repetition of words to make things kind of slow down and make you take your time in the image of the forest. Oliver explains how nature is the escape that lets everything around it go at the full rushing pace it always runs at, while nature slows everything down letting you think on things. Both pieces speak of the excitement of simply making the world your own and doing what you want, whether it be fly fishing or just relaxing out in the sun soaked blades of a
