Twelfth Song of Thunder Symbolism, Imagery, Allegory

There are two important refrains in “Twelfth Song of Thunder.” They go a little something like this: “The voice that beautifies the land” and “Again and again it sounds.” Together, thes...

Quick: what’s the sound of one grasshopper speaking? If you said “cheep, cheep,” give yourself… half credit. This poem is letting us know that the sounds of the natural world are, in fact,...

“Twelfth Song of Thunder” is about the voices of nature melding with one another to create one big, beautiful harmony. The poem creates a harmony out of the big noises of nature (like thunder)...

The beauty of nature is an important motif in “Twelfth Song of Thunder.” The poem gives us a vision of how all of these aspects of nature—thunder and grasshoppers and plants and clouds—come...