Of Mere Being -- Wallace Stevens

Again, because Stevens is so abstract, the poem could be read in a number of ways. Personally, I believe the bird that he mentions symbolizes the meaning of life. I think he is making a statement about death and once you are dead, you realize what every living person wants to know: the meaning of life. Knowing what it is will not make you happy or unhappy, a thought to the philosophers who spend their life trying to figure it out. Like the last poem, I could be totally misreading these poems, but oh well.