Question

wild geese by mary oliver you do not have to be good. you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. tell me about despair, yours, and i will tell you mine. meanwhile the world goes on. meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -- over and over announcing your place in the family of things. 1. identify at least one metaphor and one simile from this poem and write them below. what is being compared?

Explanation:

A metaphor is "the soft animal of your body" where the body is compared to a soft animal. A simile is "calls to you like the wild geese" where the world's call to the reader is compared to the call of wild geese.

Answer:

Metaphor: "the soft animal of your body", compares body to a soft animal.
Simile: "calls to you like the wild geese", compares the world's call to the call of wild geese.