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Feb 16, 2018 · Birds Of America Lyrics: Oh creature / The echo of your call / Dead in the water like a broken bell / It's all I have to remind me / Little more / One feather / The perfect shade of opal / Is all ...
May 19, 2019 · Poetry Sunday: The Birds of America by Billy Collins. May 19, 2019. Over the years, as I have consulted my various field guides to try to identify some new bird, I have pondered what the life of a birder would be without those wonderful guides. What a debt we owe to those artist/conservationists who were able to bring those lifelike ...
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The poem begins with the speakerexplaining that early “this morning” he was in bed. While relaxing there, he saw a moving image of the naturalist John J. Audubon on his ceiling. The man was kneeling down next to a duck he shot and speaking to it. Through Audubon’s words, the speaker explains why the duck was shot and what Audubon hoped would come o...
Internal rhymeis also present in the poem. This is a kind of rhyme that is not present to the end of the lines. Instead, it can appear anywhere. For example, “eye” and “fly” in the eighth stanza. Another technique used in ‘The Birds of America’ is alliteration. It occurs when words are used in succession, or at least appear close together, and begi...
Stanzas One and Two
In the first two stanzas, the speaker introduces the naturalist John J. Audubon who, as the introduction states, composed the guidebook masterpiece, Birds of America. He describes how “Early this morning” he was in bed, with the covers all “rumpled,” listening to the song of birds outside his windows. This is an incredibly peaceful and simple moment that he expands in order to discuss Audubon’s importance. The speaker imagines that the “figure” of the naturalist was on his ceiling. He was pos...
Stanza Three and Four
The next two stanzas provide the reader with a great deal of detail about the animal. They also make it clear that the speaker himself was able to obverse the scene very closely. It was vibrant on the ceiling and in his mind, so much so he could see the “slender, limp neck” and “rich chestnut crown”. It is because of this vision the speaker is able to take the time to look at this creature and see its strangeness and beauty. In the fourth stanza of ‘The Birds of America’ the speaker describes...
Stanzas Five and Six
The final four stanzas of ‘The Birds of America’ come from the perspective of Audubon, who like the previous speaker described, was studying the bird. He was speaking out loud to the animal, telling it that he took its life for a good reason. It is needed so that “some night a man / might open a book / and run his hand over [its] feathers”. Because the bird has died, Audubon is able to draw it accurately and beautifully. Then, someone, somewhere (such as the first speaker of the poem) will be...
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Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair? How can ye chaunt, ye little birds And I'm sae weary fu' o' care? Ye'll break my heart, ye warbling bird That warbles on the ...
QL674 .A9 1827 [ 1 ] The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. Not all of the specimens illustrated in the work were collected by Audubon ...
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Billy Collins' poem "Birds of America" as read by Bob Rutan for The No Epilogue Productions' Poetry Project. Check out the other poetry readings in our Poetr...
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