2007-05-15 06:58:32 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
To me it means that most people get discouraged by life. I think that the meaning of this poem is to reassure people that if they only believe in themselves they could touch the sky.
2007-05-15 07:08:06 · answer #1 · answered by Johnny5 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
RE: The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.
A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.
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She use personification (clouds are "mean," the snowflake "debates," wind "complains," nature wears "her diadem") to compare human nature to the nature of the world.
It is not always perfect, but can be lonely and cruel at times.
This does not seem to be a hopeful poem; it does not have the message to look on the bright side. But it seems to promote acceptance of this side of life as part of nature.
So there is comfort in understanding that wisdom.
2007-05-15 07:23:54 · answer #2 · answered by Nghiem E 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
idk...that girl was a nut.
2007-05-15 07:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋