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Mayflies
By Richard Wilbur
In somber forest, when the sun was low,
I saw from unseen pools a mist of flies,
In their quadrillions rise,
And animate a ragged patch of glow,
With sudden glittering - as when a crowd
Of stars appear,
Through a brief gap in black and driven cloud
One arc of their great round-dance showing clear!.
It was no muddled swarm I witnessed, for
In entrechats each fluttering insect there
Rose two steep yards in air,
Then slowly floated down to climb once more,
So that they all composed a manifold
And figured scene,
And seemed the weavers of some cloth of gold,
Or the fine pistons of some bright machine!.
Watching those lifelong dancers of a day
As night closed in, I felt myself alone
In a life too much my own,
More mortal in my separateness than they -
Unless, I thought, I had been called to be
Not fly or star
But one whose task is joyfully to see
How fair the fiats of the caller are!.
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Lots of words I've never seen in a poem before! Manifold and quadrillions! Pistons and fiats! Wonderful!.!.!.
I agree with the other Answerer who said it was hard to "decode" other poet's work!.!.!.who knows what was lurking in Mr!. Wilbur's mind!?
If taken literally, the character in his poem was fascinated by the seemingly random actions of those flies but realized the pattern ("they all composed a manifold") and he seemed to see glory in the display!. He had a "good eye", probably was a great photographer as well as a poet!
As the day ended, apparently he had watched those flies a loooong time, he philosophized that he was lonely!. "Unless !.!.!.I had been called to be!.!.!.one whose task is to joyfully see!.!.!." This line indicates that his acute vision and appreciation of it validated his calling!. He seemed enlightened by this revelation!.
I have no Earthly idea what that last line might mean!.!.!.fiats of the caller!? No clue!
I enjoyed the poem, it shows you can write very good poetry even about something as common as a bunch of "glittering" flies!
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That's actually one of my favorite poems ?
It's so beautiful ?
Anyways, to answer your question,
It means that even if you are considered "strange" or "weird" because you take the time to smell the roses, you will find marvolous things, just by looking deeper into something, instead of whizzing by them!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
It's about a forest or something about that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
i would but i have always sucked at de coding poems unless i write them myself!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
sorry can't help you with that, im realy bad at anaylzing too!.
not easy pts!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
What don't you understand about the poem!? If there are individual words that are strange to you -- for example if you don't know what an entrechat or a fiat is -- you can look them up!.
The speaker of the poem watches the graceful movement of a swarm of mayflies and for a moment feels more mortal (that is, more subject to death) than they are!. They have ultra-brief lives, those "lifelong dancers of a day," but each one of them, as a member of a swarm that seems to number in the "quadrillions," is part of something bigger than itself!. Then the speaker realizes that he also is part of something bigger than his individual life, because he has "been called" (that is, someone or something has inspired him) to observe and rejoice in the small details and the vast panorama of the natural world!.
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He`s watching a bunch of flies and marvelling at the beauty in that!. Then felt sad as he felt alone as they are not as they have each other but then thought maybe not as god had called him to witness such an event so is not alone!. Beautiful i like it!. It`s a good lesson for us all to slow down and look at whats around us as there is beauty all around!.Www@QuestionHome@Com