The voice symbolises the beauty of the stars and the stars symbolise the sweetness of the voice. [...] The second concerns the last stanza of the poem : The whole of the world was merry One joy from the vale to the height Where the blue woods of twilight encircled The lovely lawns of the light. [...] Then the liquid sound of the Ts ' in alone ' and all ' produce the effect of floating and the one anapaest adds to the effect of widness of the sea combined with the o ' sound in alones ' and the upcurving sound of i ' in wide.' The poignant sound of a ' in all ' which casts a deeper shadow than o ' sounding like a solitary hopeless cry for help gives the effect of helplessness; and the div [...] In the poet's mind the thoughts of the boy become one with the thoughts of the starling ; and the boy and the starling become one and the same thing for the time ; and the boy is symbolised in the starling. [...] Note also the imaginative background of the poem; and the desire to show the dead boy the starling on the lawn; and the symbolical merging of the boy into the starling and of the starling into the boy.
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