Wednesday, May 27, 2009

TO THE CANARY-BIRD a sonnet by Jones Very

I cannot hear thy voice with others’ ear,
Who make of thy lost liberty a gain;
And in thy tale of blighted hopes and fears
Feel not that every note is born with pain.
Alas! That with thy music’s gentle swell
Past days of joy should through thy memory throng,
And each to thee their words of sorrow tell,
While ravish’d sense forgets thee in thy song.
The heart that on the past and future feeds,
And pours in human words its thoughts divine,
Though at each birth the spirit inly bleeds,
Its song may charm the listening ear like mine,
And men with gilded cage and praise will try
To make the bard, like thee, forget his native sky.

When this author saddens because the caged bird sings, I disagree with him. Having heard varied, lilting, soaring and seraphic songs from my boxed canaries, I still rejoice that they shared their gifts with me. They ring in memory’s welcome ears.

5 Comments:

Blogger Rob Velella said...

A canary's song might be beautiful, but Very is trying to make you understand that this "gift" comes at the price of slavery. The bird, after all, has had its liberty taken away for your gain, and is now locked in a gilded cage with the hope it will "forget his native sky." The bird-owner in this poem has forced this bird to lose its natural identity and instead turn only into a device which produces song. Whether you agree with Very or not, he certainly has turned this into a tragic story. "I cannot hear thy voice with other's ear."

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