A.R. Ammons – Easter Morning

Easter Morning was a very heart felt poem that “moved” me in a way that many poems have not. The poignancy factor I feel was due to the extreme situation on which the poem was based upon. A boy who lost his brother and now visits his grave on Easter Morning. What strikes me most about the poem is how it starts talking about the incompletions and death, which seems like a dead end road. However, all of a sudden it turns to the birds above, straying from their original path, but then continuing on. It brings about a certain “hope” in future, where his brother may have died, but he still has a life to live. It strikes me more than others because of the vision of the birds shows that there is a still a path that needs to be continued, and you can not let the past deter your own future.