Wilbur is extremely interested in the pain and pleasure that the world brings on our sophisticated hearts and minds. AThe Writer," one of Wilbur=s sadly joyous poems, describes the father=s thoughts of his daughter entering the real world of adulthood. The father associates this moment of his daughter=s life with an unpleasant scene of a bird trapped in the same room in which his daughter is writing a story now. The bird would hit the window and drop as if dead on the floor, and then it would do that again for an interminable hour, until it was hurt and bloody. Finally, it would fly into the open window back to its life and freedom. The same way would the speaker=s daughter have to battle against the cruelty and unfairness of life, until she finds her way out or dies from exhaustion. There is no one to help her in her passage to the real world, just as no one could help the bird. That is the cruelty of life, and one can only hope and wish when in such position. The result would be either devastating for the mind, or it will bring it pleasure and satisfaction.
AThe Writer@ is perhaps one of Wilbur=s poems that is exclusively threaded with imagery. The speaker=s daughter is in her room Awhere light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden@ (2) that conveys an image of a dark and shadowy place where the girl lives. Then, the trapped bird is described as both beauteous and Airidescent creature@ (22) and as Ahumped and bloody@ (25) to illustrate the lovely part of life and its other dark and unjust side.
Solid images like these are also created in AThe Writer@ through the use of simile. The monotonous sound of the typewriter is Alike a chain hauled over a gunwale@ (6), a comparison that perfectly illustrates the irritating sound of the typewriter. Then, the image of the bird that would Adrop like a glove / To the hard floor@ (23-24) after hitting the window, erects sympathy in the readers= feelings for the starling, and makes them feel as if they were in the place of the poor creature.
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