Summary of the poem swallows travel to and fro stanza wise
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Stevenson made this poem with an idea of human interconnectedness in mind.
He wants to show through his speaker how everyone can relish in their relation through nature.
Stevenson uses image of “swallows traveling to and fro” to show freedom of the world and one’s connection to everyone else.
This piece starts with swaying motion of wind and breeze made by his word and rhyme selection.
Breeze has love on its back and transports wherever it travels.
First stanza ends by saying at noon no matter where “you and I” are we see “same sunshine above.”
Poem continues showing when summer comes and the world is awash with creatures and burgeoning harvest and breeze “brings / into contact distant things.”
Conclusion of the poem stresses our connection through senses and our closeness through our mutual experience of the world.
This connection speaker says should make one “tremble” with “delight.”