The Saturday poem: Creatures part 2

[nodbear]

As promised a second week on birds this week, but this time not pet parrots but an attempted baby bird rescue in the garden.Robert Frost leaves the outcome open- and leaves his fellow Americans,and the rest of us, a powerful metaphor.I got to know this poem and much other Frost better after the lovely eglantine_br gave me an illustrated collection of his poems

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[eglantine_br]

When Frost is good he is really really good. I would have liked him better i think, if they had taught this one in school-- he had a darkness to him that is more real than his Currier and Ives persona.

I like the way he leaves this one open. We never do learn, and neither does he, what becomes of the little birds.