玛丽·奥利弗是美国当代最受欢迎的诗人之一,她的诗歌深受爱默生、梭罗等美国自然主义诗人的影响。上个世纪八十年代以来,一些评论家分别从女性主义、浪漫主义、生态学以及神学等四个视角对她的作品展开了批评,试图对她的诗歌进行归类。奥利弗本人并不接受这些具有明显政治标签的评论,她始终坚持诗歌普遍性的审美价值和文化多元性,试图让任何读者都可以进入她的诗歌。 Mary Oliver is one of the most popular contemporary poets in the United States, and her poetry is influenced by American naturalistic poets such as Emerson and Thoreau. Since the eighties of last century, some critics have criticized her works from the perspectives of feminism, romanticism, ecology and theology, respectively, trying to classify her poetry. Oliver himself did not accept these apparently politically-tagged comments. She always insisted on the universal aesthetic value and cultural diversity of poetry, trying to make any reader have access to her poetry.