Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Hi can you tell me the theme of this poem please? (with examples)?

The Diverse Causes - by Michael Ondaatje





Three clouds and a tree


reflect themselves on a toaster.


The kitchen window hangs scarred,


shattered by winter hunters.





We are in a cell of civilised magic.


Stravinsky roars at breakfast,


our milk is powdered.





Outside, a May god


moves his paws to alter wind


to scatter shadows of tree and cloud.


The minute birds walk confident


jostling the cold grass.


The world not yet of men.





We clean buckets of their sand


to fetch water in the morning,


reach for winter cobwebs,


sweep up moths who have forgotten to waken.


When the children sleep, angled


behind their bottles, you can hear mice prowl.


I turn a page


careful not to break the rhythms


of your sleeping head on my hip,


watch the moving under your eyelid


that turns like fire,


and we have love and the god outside


until ice starts to limp


in brown hidden waterfalls,


or my daughter burns the lake


by reflecting her red shoes in it.





please help :)

Hi can you tell me the theme of this poem please? (with examples)?
I believe it is about the transformation between spring and winter.



Loose Teeth

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