Mind

Born: March 1, 1921 (current age 91) New York, NY
 * Richard Wilbur**

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**Biography:**

 * ====Grew up in North Cadwell, NJ. Richard====
 * ====Attended Amherst College after graduating high school====
 * ====Army from 1943 to 1945 during WWII.====
 * ====Harvard graduate school====
 * ====Taught at Wesleyan University====
 * ====//Things of This World//====
 * ====Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and National Book Award in 1957====
 * ====Pulitzer award for //New and Collected Poems//====

**Theme:** The main theme of this poem by Richard Wilbur is to show that the mind explores itself perfectly, knowing the limits into how far to go into the unknown.
====**Imagery:** Similes- "Mind in its purest play is like some bat". Wilbur then blatantly says he is comparing the mind to a bat in the last stanza. Questions Rise about the line "A graceful error may correct the cave". What does it mean?====
 * ===="weave and flitter, dip and soar" all while maintaining "perfect courses through the blackest air".====

**Emotion:** The emotional tone of the poem changes with each stanza.

 * First stanza: the tone seems sad and depressing, using phrases like "all alone" and "senseless wit" to describe the the life and actions of the bat within the cavern.
 * second stanza: the tone gives the reader a more positive view on the bat and the mind, describing them as knowing exactly what it is doing, and it is achieving "perfect courses through the blackest air" making them both seem imperfect in the most perfect ways.
 * Last stanza: Wilbur concludes by being very vague about his personal opinion on the simile comparing the bat and the mind, leaving the reader to feel however they would like about the poem as a whole.