Question

I am looking for the summary of the poem " Ode to a butterfly " written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Answer 1

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 The poem is about the personal emotions and feelings of the poet on watching a starry night sky upon a hill.

 Such a poem that expresses personal feelings and emotions is called a lyric.

 The rhyme scheme of the poem is abcb.

 The poem beautifully describes the sparkling and twinkling of the stars in the night sky

 The poet is in the countryside on a dark hill covered with pines.

 The poet wants to convey that there is so much majestic beauty in nature only if we have time to see it and that there is much relaxation, joy and happiness amidst nature.

 The pines are described as spicy and still by the poet because she can get the scent of pinewood present in the air.

 The stars have hearts of fire because they are made up of hot and burning gases and are compared to a precious yellow stone like Topaz and when they twinkle at night it seems as if their hearts are beating.

 The stars have been in the sky since thousands of years and will remain there forever.

 The stars are moving ahead in a stately manner and it seems as if they are marching with pride

 The poet feels honoured to witness such a spectacular view of the night sky along with millions of stars. POETIC DEVICES

 Simile: It is a figure of speech that directly compares two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’. Eg. Like a great hill

 Personification: When an idea or an animal is given human like qualities. Eg. Myriads of beating, hearts of fire, that aeons cannot vex or tire.

 Oxymoron: It is an expression which has a combination of two words that are contradictory in meaning. (not opposites) Eg. marching stately and still Reference to context I. “And a heaven full of stars…… cannot vex or tire;”

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Answer 2

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Explanation:

This is a beautiful lyric poem addressed to a butterfly, but revealing the author's amazement at its beauty and freedom. One has to pause at the phrase, "But thou art nature's freeman, - free to stray." Are these the words of a careful observer of Nature or those of an abolitionist seeking analogies.