However, behind this calm and ease, is another emotion that Wrigley portrays. It is subtle, yet winds through the poem, so the reader knows that there is some kind of problem, challenge of violence that the man (and the outside world) is facing. Just the title, itself, foreshadows this. Who wants to listen to "news" these days? Is there anything positive and uplifting on CNN or in the papers? The poem explains it as the bird's frantic chirping and the line "even peace seemed possible."
What makes this so effective is the juxtaposition. In one case, is mankind en masse waging war and killing one another. Yet, in another situation, one man, stands alone, helping free and save the life of a gentle bird. Is this supposed to be optimistic? That the power of one can perhaps undo the damage of many? Or is it pessimistic? No matter what one man does, as a group humans will destroy each other? Here is the paradox and irony: This man is living 100 miles from the nearest city to be part of nature and escape this negative news, but still cannot get away from the destruction.
Another aspect of this poem, its "inspiration," is the figurative language. The words fly off the page like the bird. The descriptions and corresponding images are so clear: "the dead singer's voice tanged by smokes and too much gin," "its body pulsed with breath, its wings spread across my palm, its eyelash legs," and "stroked it as lightly as I could, as I might not my lover's breast."
Rather than rhyme, Wrigley uses a natural rhythm that goes well with the jazz music by such blues singers as Billie Holiday. It is melodic with different paces, given the varying number syllables in the lines....
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