For a couple of months, I have been going through a poetry book, poem by poem, and annotating. I go through each poem line by line and use annotating so I further understand the poem and also to find a way to relate to it. I have been going through Mary Oliver New and Selected Poems, Volume One. Mary Oliver is one of my favorite poets, I enjoy how each poem is about nature, animals, or the beauty of the world and noticing it too, but also about a much deeper subject. There are a couple things to note about Mary Oliver's poetry before I show you how I personally annotate. Each poem is free verse, written without rhyme or a regular meter. And, as I said above, the poems have to do with nature, animals, or the world. And that's basically it, I love each poem I have read by Mary Oliver. In a way, they surprise you, being called something like Golden Rod or Peonies but turn out to be about death, life, or another deeper subjec...