The ovenbird, a “loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird”, is a meaningful choice by Robert Frost. This bird is not the melodious, spring bird with which everyone associates. Instead of a song, the ovenbird “makes…trunks sound”, he says, he knows and he frames; but he does not sing. Singing would direct away from the theme of a “diminished thing” and console the reader, rather than prepare him for the cruelties of the world, of summer and upcoming fall. As a mid-summer bird, the ovenbird serves as a gloomy reminder that spr

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