Pied Beauty : Summary

Summary

The Diverse Beauty of Nature: The poem is about the diversity and variety of nature’s forms. The poet praises God because He has created many colors, patterns, spots, and unique things in the world. Right at the beginning, he praises “dappled things,” meaning those things that are mixed or spotted with different colors or patterns.

The poet talks about the different colors of the sky, like a “brinded cow” — the sky with patches like a spotted cow — the spots on the fish’s body, the brown color of the chestnut tree, and the colorful wings of birds. All these show the variety and diversity of nature. Then he mentions different kinds of landscapes — such as cultivated land, fallow land, and land divided into patches — showing the many forms of nature.

God’s Eternal Glory: In the last part of the poem, he says that despite all this variety and diversity, these are all creations of God. God’s beauty never changes; He is the creator of everything. So the poet sings the praise of God, who made this wonderful diversity. The poet’s language is very simple and lively in this poem. Through small examples, he shows how he loves even the small, sometimes imperfect or strange forms of nature, and at the same time, he expresses deep devotion to God. The main idea of the poem is that every different form of nature is a part of God’s glory, and that glory is eternal and unchanging.