The Sow And Saint Francis Poem Analysis

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In the poem “The Sow and Saint Francis”, by Galway Kinnell, symbolism is used to show the meaning of the bud and new life, all tracing back to the sow and her babies. The author and the reader are the narrators in this poem. This poem is about new life and that you yourself can change or you can help other people. The bud and the sow are metaphors in the poem. The narrator goes through what the bud symbolizes and ten the sow comes into the poem symbolizing new life and even if you have to start over, you will flower into yourself in your own way. An piece of symbolism is when the poem stated ‘ the bud stands for all things, even those that do not flower, for everything flowers from within. This shows that everything ‘flowers’ in their own