To a Phoenix (Haiku)
The
thought behind the poem “To a Phoenix”
We
are aware of the fact that a phoenix is a symbol of immortality. This kind of mythical
bird gets itself burnt into ashes. However, right then, it emerges once again from
the hot ashes. It refers to the immortal beings. It has a slight penchant to
Jesus Christ as well who had the Resurrection on the third day after His Crucifixion.
In this haiku, the speaker persona direly desires to be half like the bird. It
is an earnest prayer to the Almighty obliquely as well. This poem alludes to
the last stanzas of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s To
A Skylark, in which the bird is a symbol of immortality, blitheness,
eternal joy, and so on and so forth. In that poem by Shelley too, we come
across a prayer by the speaker persona of the poem to the bird symptomatic of
divinity. In the current poem called “To a Phoenix”, the speaker desperately
prays for immortality which is nothing but a mirage on part of the speaker,
since he / she is made of flesh and blood.
The poem-- "To a Phoenix" -- a haiku
The thought behind the poem “To a Phoenix”
We
are aware of the fact that a phoenix is a symbol of immortality. This kind of mythical
bird gets itself burnt into ashes. However, right then, it emerges once again from
the hot ashes. It refers to the immortal beings. It has a slight penchant to
Jesus Christ as well who had the Resurrection on the third day after His Crucifixion.
In this haiku, the speaker persona direly desires to be half like the bird. It
is an earnest prayer to the Almighty obliquely as well. This poem alludes to
the last stanzas of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s To
A Skylark, in which the bird is a symbol of immortality, blitheness,
eternal joy, and so on and so forth. In that poem by Shelley too, we come
across a prayer by the speaker persona of the poem to the bird symptomatic of
divinity. In the current poem called “To a Phoenix”, the speaker desperately
prays for immortality which is nothing but a mirage on part of the speaker,
since he / she is made of flesh and blood.
The poem-- "To a Phoenix" -- a haiku
Wish I were like you!
O Phoenix! Bird immortal!
Make me half like you.
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