Analyze a Poem Major Help?

Question

Hi I need help analyzing a poem I don't really understand how to do the layout or even the 1st paragraph is where im really stuck here is the poem:

Title:Free as a . . .

First thing
outside my window
the wild world sings
I wonder
How it would be
to fly over
my neighborhood,
box houses,
streets like lines
on a map,
tops of trees;
to pull a worm
breakfast from mud
between grass blades;
to build a soft house
for my children
in the branches
of a cottonwood
or to be
such a child
too big for the nest,
taking one wild step
into air.

Answer 1

iTS ABOUT THE LIFE OF A BIRD!
so think like a bird...cut in into parts(poem)...and
sit and think think think...let your mind wander, as if you are the bird.

Answer 2

First work out what you think the poem means-it's someone imagining what it's like to be a bird, but maybe there's more to it than that... Maybe it's about the lack of human freedom. Lok at the language... when talking about the human aspects, there's first a window, implying that they are inside, the houses are boxes, the streets are very ordered, lines on a map.Humans can't fly over these, tehy can't get out of this system or network, or out of there 'boxes'.
There's the use of the word 'children' instead of 'chick' or 'baby', which implies humans rather than animals or birds, so the poet is drawing a comparison between humans and animals, and likening themself to this 'child'. The nest is a 'house', compare the use of the word 'soft' for this type of house with the box houses of the humans.
The taking one wild step into the air at the end could be representative of the poet's wish to leave their own home or life, or of the human need for travel and excitement, to get away from the constraints of human society. Or it could be about leaving chilhood and moving on into the exciting and more free adult world.

Also look at the sentence structure, there aren't many capital letters or full stops. The form of this poem appears to be very 'free' and not adhering to particular rules. This could be indicative of the freedom that poetry and imagination allow, you can also link this to the fact that the author is using their imagination also when giving themself this 'bird's eye view' of the world. The lines of the poem also make it seem a bit stilted, this could indicate something pulling back on freedom, a difficulty to get the words out, perhaps.

Hope these ideas are useful. You can start the first paragraph by trying to sum up what you thing the poem is trying to say, and then go on from there, then you can always go back to it. Once you've started, it'll be a lot easier! Good luck!

Answer 3

Presenting your thoughts on something needs of you that you know why it is, how good it accomplishs the general purpose, what the creators purpose was, the relation of subjects, predicates and the reader. The contents of the Spirit is emotion, the Judgment is negative, the Will is positive. There is a belief, does that belief have positive relation to reality? Your personal opinion can not be avoided. What is the simple message communicated. Is it normal, is it ordinary, is it both itself and its opposite.


http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ae/contents.htm

Lectures on Fine Art

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Source: G.W.F. Hegel (edited by Hotho) “Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art,” Vol. 1
Translated: by T. M. Knox, 1973.

See also Lectures on Aesthetics




Chapter III. Conscious Symbolism of the Comparative Art Form

A. Comparisons Originating from the External Object

1. Fable
2. Parable, Proverb, Apologue

(a) Parable
(b) Proverbs
(c) Apologue

3. Metamorphoses

B. Comparisons which Start from the Meaning

1. Riddle
2. Allegory
3. Metaphor, Image, Simile

(a) Metaphor
(b) Image
(c) Simile

C. Disappearance of the Symbolic Form of Art

1. Didactic Poetry
2. Descriptive Poetry
3. The Ancient Epigram



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http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phc3bb.htm

Answer 4

well i think it describe the diversity of the world and its trivial nature!