The Skies Can’t Keep Their Secrets! Benjamin Franklin wrote in Poor Richard’s Almanac, “Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.” Franklin wrote this truth, and it represents that no one can truly keep a secret. Secrets spread like a disease. If they come into contact with people its spreads faster and faster. It can be eradicated but only when everyone gets bored of the secret. Then the secret becomes mute. It’s better not to ever know the secret and avoid the deadly disease, and keep yourself safe from the deadly poison it carries in its words. The poem starts with the line, “The skies can’t keep their secret. (Line 1)” This is a metaphor for how a person cannot keep a secret to themselves. Humans are a social creature.
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Birds are often known for spreading things over wide ranges because they migrate. So if this so called bird catches the secret, what is to stop them from spreading the secret to whomever they want? The bird has no relation to you and, therefore, no sense of guilt when they spread it to other people. “If I should bribe the little bird—who knows but she would tell? (Line 7-8)” These lines state that once the bird picks it up and carries it out, how would you get it back? You wouldn’t. It would be too far spread at that point to even think about stopping it flying away. “I think I won’t—however—Its finer—not to know—(Line 9-10)” The Narrator is finally saying that she has given up about who knows her secret. She won’t try and track down the bird. It’s better not to know than to realize how many people know your secret. Then Narrator goes on to say, “If Summer were an Axiom—What sorcery had Snow?(Line 11-12)” Axiom, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is a starting point of reasoning. This helps us understand Lines 11-12. The lines state that if the secret started in summer, look how far it has traveled in the winter. The secret is now so far out in the world it is impossible to get
Birds are often known for spreading things over wide ranges because they migrate. So if this so called bird catches the secret, what is to stop them from spreading the secret to whomever they want? The bird has no relation to you and, therefore, no sense of guilt when they spread it to other people. “If I should bribe the little bird—who knows but she would tell? (Line 7-8)” These lines state that once the bird picks it up and carries it out, how would you get it back? You wouldn’t. It would be too far spread at that point to even think about stopping it flying away. “I think I won’t—however—Its finer—not to know—(Line 9-10)” The Narrator is finally saying that she has given up about who knows her secret. She won’t try and track down the bird. It’s better not to know than to realize how many people know your secret. Then Narrator goes on to say, “If Summer were an Axiom—What sorcery had Snow?(Line 11-12)” Axiom, according to Webster’s Dictionary, is a starting point of reasoning. This helps us understand Lines 11-12. The lines state that if the secret started in summer, look how far it has traveled in the winter. The secret is now so far out in the world it is impossible to get