Bluebird

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk about the poem Bluebird by Charles Bukowski. First I would like to start with vocabulary. to inhale is to breathe air, smoke or gas into you lungs. A clerk is someone who sells thing in a store or grocery A pact is an agreement between two people To weep is to cry
Before we start analyzing the poem we need to know what the bluebird stands for; bluebird is a wildly accepted symbol of cheerfulness, happiness the good one in the soul and good health. In other words any positive concept may be symbolized as a bluebird.
In this poem the bluebird is symbolized as true feelings and true thoughts.

Charles bukowski was ← An American poet, novelist and short story writer. ← Born in 1920,
The poem is written in a free verse; no rhyme no rhythm no rhyme scheme. The first stanza is introducing us to the bluebird. He is saying that “I’m not going to let anybody see you” but he is opening up to the reader. He uses repetition to develop rhythm, repeating the first two lines at the beginning of each stanza: “there’s a bluebird in my heart that/wants to get out.” As I said before the bluebird is a symbol for the good soul. There is enjambment through out the poem. There is alliteration in too tough and say stay. Also there is internal rhyme in say and stay. In the second stanza there is an imagery and uses the bluebird as a simple metaphor for his fears and weaknesses that he never lets anybody see. He is explaining that he has no one else in his life except the whores, the bartenders and the grocery clerks and he doesn’t let any of them to know the bluebird. His best friends are alcohol and cigarette. this stanza is about hiding away your weakness to appear strong to others. He thinks that his true feelings are weakness. You may try to drown it with alcohol, it may be hidden until no one is around, but it never dies. He uses alcohol and cigarette as a mask to cover his true