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Poem Bushed

The entire poem is a metaphor taken literally it can be considered just a short story about a man stranded on a beach. He wakes up early in the morning, awake and very alive, he goes to sleep feeling secure. He learns how to survive by eating porcupine bellies and keeping their quills as a prize for his hunting and survival skills. Taken on the metaphorical level it is all about a man who created a perfect life fore himself, a rainbow as Earle Birney put it. His perfect life was ruined by some unknown catastrophe, “But lightning struck it shattered it into the lake-lap.” He refers to lake-lap as the calm life he was leading, always monotone and continuous that was disturbed by the ...

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At first our character is still unsure and alert at all that is happening around him, “ At first he was out with the dawn.” Yet he becomes more and more sure of himself and feels very secure, “ A guard of goat before falling asleep on its feet at sundown.” Earle Birney uses the goat as a metaphor for security because a goat does not slip of the rocky mountain tops that our character is reaching for.
In the last stanzas the poem changes tone. It goes from a happy survival to a loss of security. The life he thought he was living and the people around him start changing showing their true colors. Everything is, “Shaping it’s peak to an arrowhead poised.” The mountain which seemed like a dream is becoming the new tool to destroy his new rainbow, his new life. Earle Birney leaves us in the last stanza on the note, “ And now he could only bar himself in and wait.” All our character can do is see his dreams shatter so he can start over again. We can only conclude that it is a cycle ...

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Added: 4/15/2004 03:09:46 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 548
Pages: 2

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