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White washing on a line billowing in the wind becomes a band of angels dancing. Wilbur's poem takes the reader from the mundane to the spiritual, the soul back down into the body, the free verse form allowing the metaphor to take off, the language bringing moments of dark tension and washed beauty.
Analysis of Poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer Author: Joyce Kilmer "Trees" is (Alfred) Joyce Kilmer's most popular poem and was first published in the Poetry magazine, August 1913. It was later the title poem of a book. This entertaining, if limited, short poem of six full rhyming couplets in which the first-person speaker praises the tree and then God for making it in the first place, uses personification and ironic contrast to make its point—poems will never match trees, the work of God. Only God can make a tree, something which the speaker could never do. This is why the tree is something of...