I wonder why the grass is green

Why

By Jeannie Kirby

I wonder why the grass is green

And why the wind is never seen?

Who taught the birds to built a nest

And told the trees to take a rest?

O, when the moon is not quite round

Where can the missing bit be found?

Who lights the stars, when they blow out

And makes the lighting flash about?

Who paints the rainbow in the sky

And hangs the fluffy clouds so high?

Why is it now, do you suppose

That dad won’t tell me if he knows?

Отчего трава зеленая, зачем?

Почему невидим ветер нам совсем?

Кто учил вить гнезда птичий сад,

А деревья сбрасывать наряд?

И когда не круглая луна,

Где кусочек спрятала она?

Кто включает звезды в вышине,

Чтоб светили и тебе, и мне?

Чья рисует радугу рука,

Высоко подвесив облака?

Думаешь, мне б папа не сказал,

Если б сам разгадку чуда знал?

The poem use of questions instills the feeling of reflective. The persona question the world order, who, what and why does "things" happens. The things that happened in the poem were majestic and miracles that cannot be done or comprehended by human.

The last two lines have a connotation to religious, in particular, Christianity, as God in Christianity was symbolized as the father. And thus, the meaning of the poem was that humans are young, powerless and cannot understand the whole world. The poem also suggested that human will eventually learn, but God do not give the whole knowledge, unless human seek it. The knowledge seek was the true knowledge, the understanding of the all powerful God and the capacity of human understanding. The point to be discussed here was that whether the human have the capacity to understand the whole concept of "true knowledge"?

But, if the poem were read through the eye of an innocent child, the line may mean the father of the child, as child usually will ask anything from the parents. All the questions will then refer as the child's observations of the world. The inquisitive feelings that child has plus the naivety of understanding how the world move.

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