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On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 12:09:54 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 11:20:48 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote: 
> > Nevertheless, two great lines by Carl Sandburg.
> Nevertheless, you haven't actually read the poem, and you haven't answered my question regarding those lines.
>

Our resident Donkey to explain what makes the poem (which he obviously hasn't read) "good" or "great," I shall offer my own thoughts on it:

The title, "Garden Wireless," sums up the poem's message as succinctly as possible: nature is sending us messages.

What messages?  That it's late Spring/early Summer, the world is warm and bursting with burgeoning life, and we should seize the day: enjoy the delightful season while it lasts.  Run, play, live, laugh, love are the specific and implied pleasures to be had... especially the last in its most passionate incarnation.

It's a wonderful, Epicurean message, but also an exceedingly common one in poetry.  What's uncommon about it is is mixture of Paganism and modernity (both in the title and the final stanza), implying that June's fertility rites remain a part of our present day world.

Stylistically, it's less of a poem proper, than a short, beautifully written monologue bursting with poetic sentiment.



Michael Pendragon
PJR: Do you ever read the posts to which you reply?
WILL DOCKERY: Okay, good point.