Cloud Painter": What is the sky's role in the poem? Analyze this symbol's meaning.
Use details and examples from the poem to develop a carefully reasoned analysis.
At first, as you know, the sky is incidental--
a drape, a backdrop for the trees and steeples.
Here an oak clutches a rock (already he works outdoors),
a wall buckles but does not break,
water pearls through a lock, a haywain trembles