I Will Take an Egg Out of the Robin’s Nest
I Will Take an Egg Out of the Robin’s Nest - meaning Summary
Everyday Objects as Sermon
The speaker vows to use ordinary natural objects—a robin’s egg, gooseberries, a tomato, a beach pebble—as his sermon to the world. He claims these simple things will silence clerics and skeptics by embodying direct, democratic revelation. The poem celebrates finding authority and meaning in everyday nature rather than in institutional religion, asserting that plain objects can confound dogma and convey spiritual truth to all.
Read Complete AnalysesI WILL take an egg out of the robin’s nest in the orchard, I will take a branch of gooseberries from the old bush in the garden, and go and preach to the world; You shall see I will not meet a single heretic or scorner, You shall see how I stump clergymen, and confound them, You shall see me showing a scarlet tomato, and a white pebble from the beach. 5
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