Question: What are the major themes in this piece? Are there any minor themes as well? Is there any kind of “subtext” in this essay? What kinds of murmurs run below the surface?
The poet gives fairly straight forward idea about that every organism will die at last. He starts with saying “Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear?” then he talks about the grasshopper in details such as how it flies, how it moves its jaws back and forth, and how it snaps its wings open, and floats away. I believe he uses that tool of giving details about the grasshopper to show the similarities of the way of life between the grasshopper and the human.
He uses subtext to support his poem and make it more interesting. For instance, after he finished giving details about the grasshopper he starts to bring the idea of living and dying to the human being by the use of talking about himself “which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done?” Next, the poet brings the readers to the truth of death at any time without expecting the death even to knock your door. This indicated when he says “Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild precious life?
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