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Comment 3 of 13, added on December 2nd, 2004 at 2:18 PM.
I'm coursing Literature I at college and yesterday, I I had to analyse this
poem. My reading was that the lyrical I, was describing the appearence of
this humming bird -its wings, its color, its sound, by means of an
sustained metaphor.Then, regarding the last two lines of the poem, the poet
mentions the "mail" which represents the pollen it carries from one far
away flower to another.
What do you think of my analysis???
Monica from Argentina
Comment 2 of 13, added on November 23rd, 2004 at 11:47 AM.
Is it possible that the last two lines simply suggest that because the
hummingbird flies so quickly, that a delivery all the way from Northern
Africa would only be an easy morning trip? Maybe I am oversimplifying!
Kristin Warner from United States
Comment 1 of 13, added on October 31st, 2004 at 1:41 AM.
I've spent a decade reading Miss Emily, this one I cannot grasp.
Lines one-through-six are excellent.
Then she goes totally oblique with the mail from Tunis
being as easy morning's ride.
Miss Emily was not above toying with the reader (remembering, only a
handful of people saw
a few dozen of her poems), if we use her letters
as indicative of her playfulness, and sometimes intent
to mislead.
So, what do the last two lines mean? Was this just
a day where she tired and threw in the last two lines?
The quatrain was her form; are we supposed to be looking at two quatrains,
there are eight lines, did she just not leave a space between the two
quatrains?
If anyone can define the last two lines of this
ditty, please...
jerrygarner from United States
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I'm coursing Literature I at college and yesterday, I I had to analyse this
poem. My reading was that the lyrical I, was describing the appearence of
this humming bird -its wings, its color, its sound, by means of an
sustained metaphor.Then, regarding the last two lines of the poem, the poet
mentions the "mail" which represents the pollen it carries from one far
away flower to another.
What do you think of my analysis???
Monica from Argentina