Sonnet (1979)
Read 'Sonnet (1979)' by 'Elizabeth Bishop' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
Caught -- the bubble
in the spirit level,
a creature divided;
and the compass needle
wobbling and wavering,
undecided.
Freed -- the broken
thermometer's mercury
running away;
and the rainbow-bird
from the narrow bevel
of the empty mirror,
flying wherever
it feels like, gay!
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