Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays by Mary Oliver
Published 2006 · 18,425 words · about 1 hour at an average pace
How hard is Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays to read?
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays scores 45 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 45 out of 100
- Plain, deliberately unliterary.
- Sentence structure: 45 out of 100
- Short lines and clear prose by turns.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete nature opening onto direct statement.
- Information density: 48 out of 100
- Light.
- Narrative indirection: 40 out of 100
- A speaking voice close to the poet.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The owls are figures as much as birds.
- Ironic distance: 30 out of 100
- Almost none.
- Resolution withholding: 50 out of 100
- Pieces end on address to the reader.
- Structural complexity: 35 out of 100
- Poems and essays alternating.
How Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays is regarded
Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays holds a literary regard score of 51 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.