Twelfth Song of Thunder Themes
Man and the Natural World
“Twelfth Song of Thunder” is full of images of nature. We get thunder and grasshoppers and clouds and grass. It’s a song that glorifies nature in all its beauty. The song suggests we need to...
Spirituality
There isn’t any explicit mention of spirituality or gods up in the clouds in this poem, and yet “Twelfth Song of Thunder” evokes spirituality through its description of nature. The poem sugge...
Awe and Amazement
“Twelfth Song of Thunder” is a poem that sweeps from the grand spectacles of nature (like thunder) to the teeny-tiny spectacles of nature (like grasshoppers). Even though the speaker considers...
Time
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could circle back in time sometimes, rewind back to a moment before we said that stupid thing in class, or before we made a fool of ourselves in front of our crush. It...