Our Little Kinsmen After Rain
poem 885
Our Little Kinsmen After Rain - meaning Summary
Small Lives, Divine Regard
The speaker observes numerous earthworms after rain and initially calls their lives "needless." Watching a bird courteously take one for breakfast prompts a moral shift: the speaker imagines God relating to humans as the speaker relates to the worm. The poem reframes apparent insignificance as part of a larger order, granting the small creature cautious dignity and suggesting humility before divine perspective.
Read Complete AnalysesOur little Kinsmen after Rain In plenty may be seen, A Pink and Pulpy multitude The tepid Ground upon. A needless life, it seemed to me Until a little Bird As to a Hospitality Advanced and breakfasted. As I of He, so God of Me I pondered, may have judged, And left the little Angle Worm With Modesties enlarged.
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