Wee Willie Gray
Wee Willie Gray - meaning Summary
Imaginative Rustic Dress
This short lyric presents a playful scene in which Wee Willie Gray fashions clothing from natural materials. The speaker lists how willow, briar rose, lily, and even fly feathers become boots, jacket, trews, doublet, sark, cravat, and a bonnet. The repetitive, sing-song lines suggest a folk or nursery-song quality and celebrate resourceful imagination, transformation, and simple rural life. The poem invites readers to picture improvised dress and childlike fancy rather than to infer a detailed narrative or moral.
Read Complete AnalysesWee Willie Gray, and his leather wallet, Peel a willow wand to be him boots and jacket; The rose upon the breir will be him trews an' doublet, The rose upon the breir will be him trews an' doublet, Wee Willie Gray, and his leather wallet, Twice a lily-flower will be him sark and cravat; Feathers of a flee wad feather up his bonnet, Feathers of a flee wad feather up his bonnet.
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