The Oven Bird

In “The Oven Bird” there is a question of what will happen when he (author) dies and returns to all the birds that have died before him. The poem is basically saying that when you die, you will return to the ground where other great people are buried. The paradox of the Oven bird assertive voice completes the suggestion that only a new "language" can accommodate the dimishing of things, for he neither sings not speaks.