Monday, 23 September 2013

Wild Geese

The speaker in this poem is speaking to a listener who believes that he does not belong to this world and he is feels out of place. The listener thinks that he does not fit into this world of things so he does not love himself or like what he is. The speaker advises him to let his heart love what ever it wants to love. The speaker also asks him to share his problems so that they can find a solution for his problems. I think the speaker also tries to tell the listener that it will take some time to find his place in this world because it will take time to figure it out. But in the mean time the world wont stop rotating just because you did not find your pace in this world. Nature will still continue with its seasonal cycles and pass from summer to winter to spring and to autumn, clouds will still pass over prairies and trees and mountains and rivers.
The speaker tries to tell the listener that everyone makes mistakes but he should move on with life learning from those mistakes instead of repenting. The world will still rotate and do its job though we sit and repent about our mistakes. By saying that, the wild geese are "flying home again", the speaker tries to show  the listener how time passes although and we also should move on with life and learn from our mistakes. The world is also a place of imagination so even if you really don't have a place in the world, at least you can imagine a comfortable place where you might fit in because "the world offers itself to your imagination".
Then once you find you space in the world then you can always go back to it just like the wild geese that know they have a home every time they migrate. The title "Wild Geese" refers to the freedom that the birds have and a confidence that they have a place in this earth and a home they can come back to. It also gives a message to the people saying that they should move on with life even after committing mistakes because the world does not care about you and that everyone has a place on this earth but they only have to find it that space.

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