Why God Had Made Miss D So Little and Mrs a So Big

Why God Had Made Miss D So Little and Mrs a So Big - meaning Summary

Valuing Small Versus Large

This brief lyric contrasts a tiny gem with a vast piece of granite to argue that physical size does not determine worth. Burns suggests the Creator made the gem small and the granite large so human beings would assign greater value to the gem despite its lesser bulk. The poem compresses a moral observation into a simple image: perceived worth is shaped by human judgment and cultural preference rather than objective magnitude.