No Bobolink Reverse His Singing
poem 755
No Bobolink Reverse His Singing - meaning Summary
Loss and Persistent Song
Dickinson presents a bobolink whose sole tree is seized by a farmer, stripping the bird of its future landscape and refuge. The poem registers dispossession and ecological loss but also the bird’s persistent song as its sole consolation. In sparse, compressed images the poem links human action to diminished horizons while noting the animal’apacity for endurance through music as a form of solace amid displacement.
Read Complete AnalysesNo Bobolink reverse His Singing When the only Tree Ever He minded occupying By the Farmer be Clove to the Root His Spacious Future Best Horizon gone Whose Music be His Only Anodyne Brave Bobolink
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