Bantams in Pine-woods
Bantams in Pine-woods - meaning Summary
Defiant Smallness Against Grandiosity
The poem stages a comic confrontation between a pompous, oversized figure and a defiant small bird in the pines. The speaker rejects grandiose, universal claims of dominance and insists on personal, bounded perspective: "I am the personal." The bantam’s bristling presence in Appalachian woods asserts local vitality over swaggering poetic authority, celebrating modest, embodied identity against inflated artistic self-importance.
Read Complete AnalysesChieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan Of tan with henna hackles, halt! Damned universal cock, as if the sun Was blackmoor to bear your blazing tail. Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal. Your world is you. I am my world. You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat! Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines, Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs, And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.
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