Music

Music is another big theme in this poem. It's evoked right from the title, "Song VII," and we find music imagery throughout the poem itself. Given that this is a poem that is about communicating with the divine, sounds and song are used by the speaker as a way of suggesting the best ways in which we can communicate with God—simply and directly.

• Line 1: The speaker describes his poem as a "song." This connects the poem to music. What's important about this is that the speaker's words here link music and poetry. Poetry is a kind of music, because like music it relies on sounds and rhythms. 
• Lines 8-9: In describing his own life in terms of an instrument, a "flute of reed" that the divine fills with music, the speaker suggests that the true master-musician is God, holding his own private jam session way up there in the sky. This image also sets the speaker in a passive, or receptive, relationship to God. The speaker himself doesn't have the power to make music. Only the "master poet"-musician God does.