A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
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Who wrote the poem "A Minor Bird"?
Robert Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963)
Robert Frost was an American poet who was born in San Francisco, California. Frost’s life was marked by grief and loss. When he was 11, his father died of tuberculosis, leaving just eight dollars. Frost’s mother died of cancer when he was 26. Mental illness ran in his family. He and his mother suffered from depression, and his sister and his daughter were committed to mental hospitals. Using realistic depictions of rural life, his poems often examined complex social and philosophical themes. Frost’s first book was published at the age of 40, but he ended up winning four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry and becoming the most famous poet of his time.
"A Minor Bird" explanation
In the poem, the speaker is irritated by a
“minor” bird’s song and tries to drive it away by clapping at it. Soon, he
realizes that the bird is not to blame for its singing and it’s wrong to
silence any song. The poet perhaps is suggesting that it’s wrong to suppress
the voices of the weak and less important.
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