The Waterfowl
"To a Waterfowl" is addressed to a… waterfowl so, naturally, a waterfowl appears throughout the poem. This isn't, however, the poetic equivalent of a show on the Discovery Channel, and the waterf...
The Sky
The speaker always seems to be talking about the waterfowl flying around in the sky, and for good reason. To the speaker, the sky is the equivalent of a vast "desert," a "pathless coast," a very "c...
Power
The speaker is very careful about this touchiest of subjects. He never describes the "Power" of line 13 as God, even though there's a good chance that this is what he means. Nevertheless, "To a Wat...