mother bird poem what are the emotions felt by the bird
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Throughout the poem, the speaker characterizes the mother bird as having a mixture of meekness and valiance: the bird is "brave" as she looks at the speaker, yet has "beseeching" eyes that look at him "meekly." More contradictions attributed to the bird include "valiant tears" and "hopeless joy," as if the animal has ...
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Throughout the poem, the speaker characterizes the mother bird as having a mixture of meekness and valiance: the bird is "brave" as she looks at the speaker, yet has "beseeching" eyes that look at him "meekly." More contradictions attributed to the bird include "valiant tears" and "hopeless joy," as if the animal has the human-like ability to experience complex and contradictory emotions: fearlessness and fearfulness, hope and hopelessness. As the poem comes to a close, the speaker labels the bird a "mother" but points out her "lonely" state in the nest--we assume the baby birds haven't hatched yet, so she's not really a mother, then. The speaker's reaction to the bird's sudden cry is a final contradiction in the poem; that is, while he's making his exit because the bird so effectively and victoriously drove him out of the hedge with her "sharp solitary note," he's also slipping away with a foolish smile on his face, as if he were the victor in this situation.