The relationship between the bird and nature signifies a passage of time more specifically, the changing seasons represent the stages of a person’s life. The poem being with spring which symbolizes babies and childhood. Like leaves that are growing in the spring, babies are also just beginning their lives and developing. Next, summer represents middle aged people and fall is about elderly years. Finally, winter is about death because he says, “The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.” This shows that although it may be hard to accept death, it is inevitable.
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I agree with your stance on how the bird and the seasons in nature represent the different stages in life. The spring and summer represent the youth and liveness of people, at their peak in life, while the fall and winter represent the declining and end stages of life. Frost seems to approach and accept death as it is inescapable.