Figurative Language In The Oven Bird

Around 1906, Robert Frost moved to New Hampshire where he began writing his poem “The Oven Bird.” At first, I thought that the name was a little random, but after doing some research, I discovered that he was talking about a specific type of bird. This bird in particular is a ground-walking warbler. It builds its nest in the shape of an oven, which is why Frost chose to name the poem “The Oven Bird.” There was no controversy about the poem; the public accepted it without question. This particular poem is written in the form of a sonnet. This specific sonnet starts out with a couplet, where as most sonnets don’t unless the rest of the poem is in couplets. The rhyme scheme (AABCBDCBEEFGFG) is also a little wacky since Frost starts out with a couplet and sticks another one in the middle of the poem. Another unusual thing is that the first line says that “There is a singer everyone has heard…” That’s a weird thing to put in there because that specific bird is only
He uses imagery to be very descriptive about the season, though he doesn’t come out and say it. We can infer that it’s spring since he talks about the bird singing and petals falling, meaning that the trees are getting their leaves again. He uses alliteration with the words petal, past, and pear and uses personification so that readers know what the bird is “feeling” and “saying.” All of these examples of figurative language set the mood for the poem: a happy, serene tone that relaxes the reader. I think that the theme or message is that every bird has a song. By that, I mean that everyone has a voice. Repeatedly in “The Oven Bird” Frost talks from the bird’s point of view, signifying that even a tiny bird has a say. For example, “He says that leaves are old…” The bird also sees things differently, not just because he’s smaller than us, but because he is a different form of life: a bird, not a human. By Alexis