An example of personification in the first stanza is the phrase “your soldier’s steps” (line 7). The poem compares the sandpiper like soldier. The sandpiper feels proud and In the last four lines of the poem, the poet tells the sandpiper that it is small. What does the poet mean by this? Explain.
The sandpiper is swollen with self-importance, unaware of the world around him. The poet says “you’re small, so small” to widen the reader’s perspective and to emphasize the bird’s insignificance in the grand scheme of things.
marches confidently like a soldier.