"The Great Scarf of Birds" prepares the reader for the ending statement by means of flowing through diction, organization, and the figurative language laid out in the poem. .
In relation to the poem's ending, organization of thoughts and descriptions is key. The narrator starts out observing the apples, the branches, the trees, the sky, the birds and then the ladies scarf. The setup of the poem creates a flow in which the narration is used to lead up to a topic that ends the poem, the narrator's heart and the lifting of the scarf that covered it. .
The speaker uses diction to connect all of his random images to the bigger thought that is on his mind. The diction seems to prepare the speaker as well as the reader sees reminds him of a past even in which a ladies scarf was lifted over his heart. .
In the figurative language used in the poem the writer uses an occurrence in nature to tell a story of a past experience. In the sky he saw a cloud, the cloud was really a flock of geese in which covered the grass more that the writer thought possible. The geese also reminded him of a ladies scarf " drawn upward and then decided against, negligently tossed toward a chair." This scene brought up the lifting of the scarf as on the speakers heart. The ladies scarf can be a representation of the ladies love which seems to be as flighty as the "scarf of birds" that was moved by action of one bird. The scarf of birds engulfed the cast green grass as the woman's love engulfed the speaker's heart, while neither was something the speaker had expected could happen. .
The speaker's uses of figurative language, organization and diction help the poem flow from the first thought of the poem to the concluding response preparing the reader for what's to come and linking the apples, birds and the "great scarf" in the end. .
