1. Kinnel's Saint Francis and the sow
... two objects. Let first start off with the first part of the poem. As I read into the first line "The bud stands for all things," there is not enough details and images yet, to support the bud; Kinnell explanation of the buds is not so clear, as I read down in the poem "even for things that don't flower, for everything flowers, from within, of ... self-blessing;" with that I know Kinnell is saying that the bud of the flower is something ugly or undeveloped, or you can say the bud is turning into a flower, which might not be lovely at the time, but slowly will bloom like a flower with bea...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate