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:dove_of_peace: With Birds You're Never Lonely :dove_of_peace:,…
:dove_of_peace: With Birds You're Never Lonely :dove_of_peace:
TITLE
Straightforward, suggests birds can keep you company
Tui birds: Thought to be Gods/Goddess' messengers, communicates to poet that you can achieve spiritual harmony by listening to the natural world
THEMES
Solitude
Nature
Identity/Culture
Spiritual wellbeing
Belonging
Family
LANGUAGE
Symbolism
Sibilance
Juxtaposition
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Rhetorical questions
FORM AND STRUCTURE
Couplets (exception of final line): Implies the simplicity of finding peace, just listen and connect to the natural world around you
Repetitive use of couplets: Longevity and reliability of nature, always present and there for us
Singular final line: Ominous departure, suggests you will end up alone like that line if you fail to find a nurturing environment that helps you grow
KEY QUOTES
"Spoons slam, steam rises"
"..deep in Zelandia forest with sun-syrupped Kauri trees and brazen Tui birds with white tufts, yellow and black beaks"
"As I switched sound on again, silence collapsed"
"The forest spat all the birds back"
"I was jealous - the earthy Kauri trees, their endless brown and green trunks of sturdiness"
"I wondered what the trees would say about us?
What books would they write if they had to cut us down?"
"Later, stumbling from the forest"
"She could tell which bird chirped, a skill she learned from her grandfather"
"I felt sorry for any grey tree in London, for the family they don't have, - the Gods they can't hold."
CONTEXT
Poet is deaf, grew up immersed in poetry as it was something liked and explored within his family
Poetry was a source of joy
WRITTEN BY RAYMOND ANTROBUS (b. 1986)