This poem's speaker imagines fashioning a live bird out of clay, which breaks its leg and begs the speaker to repair it.
The speaker of this poem relates how a single wave destroyed a wattle fence he spent half the winter weaving. In this poem, letting apples rot, sacrificing the best of three kids, and cutting a finger off are considered as options to appease a certain figure. This poem's speaker imagines fashioning a live bird out of clay, which breaks its leg and begs the speaker to repair it. The speaker of this poem continually refers to himself in the (*) third person, but without a pronoun, as in its openings lines: "Will sprawl, now that the heat of day is best, / Flat on his belly in the pit's much mire". This poem imagines a figure who created the sun and moon due to being "ill at ease", but who is subordinate to a power called "The Quiet", which the speaker learned from his mother, Sycorax. For 10 points, name this dramatic monologue by Robert Browning in which a character from The Tempest meditates upon the nature of the title god.
The speaker of this poem relates how a single wave destroyed a wattle fence he spent half the winter weaving.
"Caliban Upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island"