In Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver

This poem was probably one of my favorite poems of the bunch. I enjoyed the imagery to the put of you can visualize everything the author is trying to describe. The way the author approaches the poem with such imagery is awesome. What I get out of the poem is that everything is connected in someway or another. She uses the woods, trees, ponds as the metaphor to compare to humans. Where we as humans can always connect in a way, we have a nose, eyes, and ears. She describes this metaphor up through stanza 6 then the poem kind of transitions. From the metaphor feeling the author starts giving advice about life. That even though you can connect with all people, you will always be able to meet that someone that you connect with the most. You will find the person that you love, hold, and let it go. I love how she approaches this poem and with the way she does I am able to understand and enjoy the poem more. Probably the one thing I do not understand about this poem is the reason for the title for the poem. What is significant about the title? I just don't get how it is connected to the whole connection thing going on throughout the whole entire poem. So just with that little misunderstanding I enjoyed reading and understanding the poem and I didn't exactly get death out of this poem just lost.