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Oliver begins the poem with three rhetorical questions increasing in specificity. The first question surprises the reader, because the answer should be obvious: God; yet Oliver asks it anyways. This introduces Oliver's theme of questioning authority. The second question compares a swan and a black bear, which are polar opposites in colour, nature, and symbolic elements (swans inhabit the water, while bears inhabit the earth). The reader can then infer that Oliver intends to include everything in between these two opposites in nature within the question. The third question brings the character of the grasshopper, which is observed with unusual attention in lines 4-10.
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