Colored Toys
Colored Toys - meaning Summary
Giving Reveals Wonder
The speaker addresses a child and links simple acts of giving—colored toys, song, sweets, kisses—to discovering why the world is beautiful. Each offering makes the speaker perceive color in clouds, music in leaves, sweetness in fruit, and pleasure in light and breeze. The poem frames the child’s joy as a revelatory mirror: generosity and affection reveal the meaning and source of nature’s delights for the adult observer.
Read Complete AnalysesWhen I bring to you colored toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, and why flowers are painted in tints - when I give colored toys to you, my child. When I sing to make you dance I truly now why there is music in leaves, and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth - when I sing to make you dance. When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands I know why there is honey in the cup of the flowers and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice - when I bring sweet things to your greedy hands. When I kiss your face to make you smile, my darling, I surely understand what pleasure streams from the sky in morning light, and what delight that is that is which the summer breeze brings to my body - when I kiss you to make you smile.
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