what does the poet mean by saying ' Showing her barred face identity mask?"
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The mother goldfinch has stripes on her face. After she perches on the laburnum tree with food in her beak, she hops closer to her nest where her baby-chicks are waiting for her. As she looks into the nest from the edge, her baby-birds recognize her face and start chirruping and opening their tiny beaks for food.
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This is an example of the poetic device – transferred epithet. The laburnum tree has flowers that fall like bars and when the bird sits behind the flowers the shadow on her face looks like she is wearing a mask that has bars on it. So, barred – is actually an adjective for the flowers and has been transferred from there and applied to the bird. (This is the Answer)
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While the bird is sitting on the tree branch , she hides her real identity and creates a different persona. As the bird on the trunk of the tree with her family is her as a mother. The real identity of the bird is hidden while she is behaving like a mask on the tree. Her real identity is to be free, and explore the endless sky.
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