Daedalus by Alastair Reid
The first line in the poem is my intelligence has birds in his head hear a couple of of import things are learned, one that the narrator is a father. Also in this line it gives an overall plot to the poem its what the quiet of the poem is going to be about. Something that I think I gathered out of this was the age of the son in the poem. For a person to have birds in their heads I imagine they must(prenominal) be very young, in my opinion the child is surrounded by 7-12. The last thing about this line is the tone it sets for the proportion of the poem, when I read someone has birds in their head it gives me a very light hearted feeling that stays with it for the rest of the poem.
I hit the hay them now. I catch
the pitch of their calls, their shrill
cacophonies, their chitterings, their coos.
They hover bed his eyes, and come to rest
on a branch, on a book, course still,
claws curled, wings furled.
His is a bird world.
This first stanza, the whole sentence the father is describing something that he finally understands. He imagines I know them now and I catch the pitch of their calls Both of these lines say the same thing repeatedly, however the latter of the two starts to incorporate bird phrases into it.
The pitch of their calls or like the birds words or thoughts is what the father finally understands, we dont know exactly what birds are saying and I think in this meaning the father explains he is starting to get his hand on what his son is thinking. In the next couple lines the father uses adjectives that would commonly used to describe birds way of talking or screaming. He uses words like chitterlings and coos, both are distinguishable ways of saying sounds a bird makes. But when I read this it, its almost like with each special(prenominal) sound there is a certain voice butt it is what the father is attempting to say. In the last lines of this stanza the reader starts to see what rattling the father knows now. He explains how these different bird sounds are hovering behind...If you exigency to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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