Lord Of The Flies Comments

The poet is true to his voice and his vocation. That's what the metaphor of the blue bird reveals. Those others wanted something to confirm their dead-end philosophy, a bird singing of death and despair. But your blue-bird voice miffs them singing the truth as it sees it, and even the dark, dank, dull voice of the new bird can't silence it. I don't know if I reached the heart of this poem with my comment - there are passages I can't penetrate - but the lines MY HAPPINESS DESPITE MY LONELINESS KEEPS ME ONE sounds like a condition of integrity.