The title might be the most important word choice of all, because it’s the first thing the reader sees, so it shapes the way the reader understands the poem. In your analysis, then, the title is a big clue: it tells you what the author wants you to be thinking about as you start reading.

We must take pride in our job and accomplish it with our best effort. It’s good to be a pine tree on the top of the hill, but you can still be noticeable by being the best bush beside the stream making the valley beautiful. The theme of the poem is inspirational and instructional, making it a great didactic poem.

The poem ‘Wind’ is full of moral lessons. The poet has poured out his heart in the present poem. He says that people must be strong at heart because only the weak at heart are troubled by difficulties. Here wind symbolises difficulties that have the power to devastate life on the earth.

The moral lesson of the poem is that do not hurt somebody.

According to the author, a place or country is colonized when the people living in it don’t have the freedom to live. Explanation: He said that a nation that doesn’t follow its own culture and traditions but tries to copy others is a colonized nation.

Answer: An author’s purpose is his reason for or intent in writing. An author’s purpose may be to amuse the reader, to persuade the reader, to inform the reader, or to satirize a condition.

The poem can be seen as an ode to the beauty of nature. The fish thus is the object used to observe and praise the workings of nature. The fish is weighty and its appearance talks of age and wisdom. A great deal of the poem is used to observe and praise with metaphorical language the outside of the fish, its skin.

She returned to Prague to study philosophy and physics, and later Greek and Latin, at Charles University where she now teaches ancient Greek literature and philosophy. She has published six volumes of poems in Czech, and her poetry has been translated and published in numerous languages.

Sylvia Fisherova

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November 5, 1963 (age 57 years)