Richard Wilbur
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| 1921-2017 |
He was born in New York city in 1921. He became one of the most honored
poets of 20th century. Despite Jon Harjo, he was the second poem laureate of
the United States. Afterwards he won many honors and awards.
The Beautiful Changes
One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides
The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies
On water; it glides
So from the walker, it turns
Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you
Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.
The beautiful changes as a forest is changed
By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;
As a mantis, arranged
On a green leaf, grows
Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves
Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.
Your hands hold roses always in a way that says
They are not only yours; the beautiful changes
In such kind ways,
Wishing ever to sunder
Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose
For a moment all that it touches back to wonder
Analysis
The author published this poem in 1947. Richard Wilbur has maintained his
style of writing poems during all his career. The Beautiful Changes shows some
of the characteristics that reflect him. First at all, the theme of the poem
relates with the changes that people face during a relationship, this could be
with friends, couple or even with family. Wilbur, had explore with nature, more
specific in the botanic area botanic, so in this poem it is notable how he
applies a few of his knowledge to this poem. He shows that those changes are
something natural and wonderful.
In each of the stanzas it is notable the message of the poem. In the case
of the first stanza, it develops an image of someone who is in a lake, with the
water until his or her knees, enjoying the path to those blue lucernes to the
valley. Then, the second stanza, the theme continues in the animal world, with
the examples of the chameleon and the mantis. When the chameleon changes its
colors or appearance we can imagine also the change of the entire forest. For
mantis, the changes are when they are over leafs because mantis turn into the
shape of them, becoming in something different to what it really is, but it is
completely wonderful imagine how both of them can become one. Finally, in the
last stanza, is shown clearer the idea of the changes through the different
relationships, because the way in which the speaker express in the second line,
it refers that those changes are experienced together and nobody is alone when suffer them, also when one person is changing her or his couple does, so the experience become even more wonderful.
The author published this poem in 1947. Richard Wilbur has maintained his
style of writing poems during all his career. The Beautiful Changes shows some
of the characteristics that reflect him. First at all, the theme of the poem
relates with the changes that people face during a relationship, this could be
with friends, couple or even with family. Wilbur, had explore with nature, more
specific in the botanic area botanic, so in this poem it is notable how he
applies a few of his knowledge to this poem. He shows that those changes are
something natural and wonderful.
In each of the stanzas it is notable the message of the poem. In the case of the first stanza, it develops an image of someone who is in a lake, with the water until his or her knees, enjoying the path to those blue lucernes to the valley. Then, the second stanza, the theme continues in the animal world, with the examples of the chameleon and the mantis. When the chameleon changes its colors or appearance we can imagine also the change of the entire forest. For mantis, the changes are when they are over leafs because mantis turn into the shape of them, becoming in something different to what it really is, but it is completely wonderful imagine how both of them can become one. Finally, in the last stanza, is shown clearer the idea of the changes through the different relationships, because the way in which the speaker express in the second line, it refers that those changes are experienced together and nobody is alone when suffer them, also when one person is changing her or his couple does, so the experience become even more wonderful.
References
“Richard Wilbur | Poetry Foundation.” Poetry Foundation, 2017, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-wilbur. November 22, 2020.
Wilbur, Richard. “The Beautiful Changes by Richard Wilbur | Poetry Foundation.” Poetry Foundation, 2020, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43055/the-beautiful-changes. November 22, 2020.
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