Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher

Poet, Lover, BirdwatcherThe poem Poet, lover, birdwatcher displays Ezekiels views on poets problems. Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher is hotshot of the better known poems of Ezekiel and has received considerable critical attention. The message of them poem is clear, The best poets detainment for manner of speaking the best poets began to write poetry only when they be truly inspired. It epitomizes the poets search for a poetics which would help him economise himself in his eyes and in the eyes of god. Parallelism is drawn between the poet, the lover and the birdwatcher. All the tercet have to wait patiently in their respective pursuits, indeed their waiting is a sort of strategy. Ezekiel attempts to watch the poem in terms of a lover and the birdwatcher. There is a close resemblance among them in search for love, bird and word. All the three became bingle in spirit, and Ezekiel expresses this in imagery noted for its preciseness and decorumThe hunts is not an lick of will hardly pat ient love relaxing on a hillTo note the movement of a timid wingThere is no consummation, no exercise of will in the three cases, but patient waiting is itself strategy, a kind of planned action to reach the goal. The hunt is search for birds or the desire to win a womens heart. Patient love relaxing on hill is to assume an attitude of patience and relaxation while watching birds or women. A timid wing is a transferred epithet where the idea of a bird existence timid is suggested. Until the one who knows that she is loved is for the man to wait for the woman to respond to his love out of her own accord, and should not force-out him upon her. In this poem poet finds his moral proved, who never spoke before his spirit moved.The first section opens with a reference to pace which is taken up in the second section by slow movement. The lines meander in and out of the three fields and emerge as single morals learnt. The first stanza refers to tangible love and suggests how to win wo men. Women are treated as birds of prey. Making love is like the experience of hunting. set weapons are to be chosen like appropriate words used by the poet. The lover manipulates the note in such a manner that the women cannot resist but surrender at the cost of being blamed.The second stanza stresses the fact that slow movement is good. One has to go to remote place just as one has to discover love in a remote place like the hearts gruesome floor. It is thither, that women look something more than their body, and that they appear like myths of light. And the poet, in zigzag movements, yet with a sense of tuneful gladness, manages to combine sense and sound.At the end of his wait, the poetic word appears in the concrete and sensuous exploit of a woman, who knows that she is loved and who surrenders to her lover at once. In this process, poetry and love, word and woman become intertwined. But this slow movement of love and poetry which shows no irritable haste to arrive at mea n does not come by easily. In order to possess the vision of the rarer birds of his psyche, the poet has to go through the ramshackle lanes of his solitary, private life he has to walk along the primal rivers of his consciousness in silence, or work to a far off shore which is like the hearts dark floor. The poet, then, gloats on the slow slue movements of the women, both for the sake of their sensuousness and the insight they bring.All three are hunters, we are told ironically none are going to devour what they succeed to hunt. The poem conducts a lesson through comparisons between the three poets, lover and birdwatcher. Poet is place first in the title and in the poem he comes last. The differentiated placement is suggestive of who is cultivation and who becomes a lesson. Lover and birdwatcher are illustrative cases for the poet to learn the craft of poetry. The last two lines of both the sections portend that the moral to be learnt is for the poet. The poem is well-structur ed poem in two regular stanzas having the rhyme pattern a b b a a c d c d d in each of them. It has a casual, conversational opening with a direct address to the poets, urging them to patiently wait for words as does a birdwatcher for birds and a lover for his ladylove.The idea of labour and hard-work is implied here with regard to a bird watcher in search of rare birds and to a poet in search of the right words. And there the women slowly turn around, not only flesh and bone but myths of light Only by and by undergoing an arduous journey may the lover get some response from the woman. The woman then becomes for him not just a being of flesh and blood, but appears as a radiant spirit which is not so much real, but mythical and imaginary. She is no longer a mere physical presence. The poet has hence glorified love as well as the woman who eventually responds to a mans love.