The Oven Bird
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Robert Frost
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The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost (1874-1963)
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...
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The Oven Bird Key Facts
Published: First published in 1916 as part of Robert Frost's collection of poems titled "Mountain Interval."
Theme: The poem explores themes of human existence, the passage of time, and the relationship between nature and human life.
Verse: Blank Verse
Symbolism: The Oven Bird's song in the poem symbolizes the passage of time and the cyclical nature of life.
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The Oven Bird Summary
Robert Frost has highlighted the reality of human life in this poem like his other poems. In this poem, the poet discusses the inevitable death. All the other animals on the earth, including humans, will one day taste death. As we are born already, death is certain. Animals are slowly decaying, and thus will one day become extinct. Here, through Oven Bird's song, the poet is reminding death is the...
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