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Robert Frost - The Oven Bird

There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
he says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.

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The Oven Bird - Comments and Information

Poet: Robert Frost
Poem: 10. The Oven Bird
Volume: Mountain Interval
Year: Published/Written in 1916

Comment 7 of 7, added on October 12th, 2007 at 7:59 AM.

I'm writing an IB paper 3 on this poem, and I believe it to be fairly ambiguous with its theme. The in depth values and interpretations of this poem are the theme of death in relation to modernism. If you study the poem carefully you notice his structured technique's are quite loosely monitored with a rhyming scheme of A,A,B;B,B,A;A,B,A,B;B,A,B,A spelling carefully the terms used within each stanza. This proves Millay's acceptance of the woman's role in modernism.

George Williams from Guyana
Comment 6 of 7, added on November 23rd, 2005 at 10:53 AM.

rhyme skem:
A,A,B; C,D; E,C,E; F,F; G,H,G,H.

enjambment or run on line:
Verse1 : He says the early petal-fall is past
Verse2 : when pear and cherry bloom went down
in showers

Is costitued from 4 peon

there is allitteration: verse1: i,e
verse2: i,o
verse3: o,a
verse4: o,e
verse5: i,e
verse6: e,a
verse7: e,o
verse8: o,a
verse9: a,o
verse10: a,e
verse11: i,e
verse12: e,a
verse13: i,a

fabio detto fab from Italy
Comment 5 of 7, added on November 15th, 2005 at 3:40 PM.

ithink its about industrilasation - states "highways dust is over all" its from the bird perspective, and the diminshed thing could be polluted countrysdie or just general - every1 else looks 2 far into it.

emma from United Kingdom

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