This poem was interesting. I love the imagery that the author shows throughout the poem. Along with the imagery though comes the confusion and misunderstanding of the poem. My first thoughts on the poem was that the structure of how the poem is made up of four tercets and no evidence of meter or rhyme scheme.
I think that the author is trying to explaing that you don't need a deep reason to enjoy life. Steven uses the bird to explain this reason. Using the bird by saying that the birds sing happily without a reason for and proves the point that there doesn't need a reason to be happy. I thought that this was interesting because it is the opposite of when people are sad, everybody wants to know the reason for the saddness, that there has to be a reason for sadness, but from Wallace Stevens you don't need a reason to be happy. I wonder if he believes this for other emotions or just hapiness? Goinga along with the imagery aspect I really enjoyed when he talked about the imagary of what the bird looks like, I don't understand why the author put the color of the bird into the poem, does it have meaning or does it just add to the poem.? What most confuses me about the poem is the word "palm" at first i thought that he was talking about a hand, but if he is, it doesn't really fit with poem. I wonder if palm has a different meaning?
This poem for some reason really stumped me. I decided to do a response on it to here you thoughts on the poem Mrs. White and also because i really enjoyed the poem. The imagery portion of the poem really stuck out to me.
I think it addresses a journey too--with the palm being our final reward. It's short, but he packs a lot into it. There are several images that give us a feel for merely being--not fully living, maybe? Those are my thoughts! :)
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