Discuss the significance of the title Whistling of Birds.
Ans: The essay “Wistling of Birds” by D.H. Lawrence artistically contrasts the charm of the spring with the ravages of winter, the devastations of chilly frosty winter with the warmth and revival of spring. The winter symbolizes death and spring symbolizes life. The frost stays for many weeks until the birds start dying rapidly. Everywhere in the fields and under the hedges lie the lagged remains of lapwings starlings, thrushes, redwings and innumerable ragged bloody cloaks of birds, when ' the flesh has been eaten by invisible beasts of prey. Then cuite suddenly, the change occurs.
The chilly cold wind vanishes and the warm cozy wind starts blowing, in the afternoon, there are little gleams of sunshine and doves begin to coo, with a laboured sound as if they are still winter stunned. In the' evening, wild birds begin to whistle faintly in the black thorn thickets. The silvery sounds echo in the evening. Although the earth is still littered in the corpses of the winter-stricken birds and the earth still seems to be dead, yet the birds, notwithstanding all this, continue there whistling rather dimly 1 and brokenly.
They still seemed to be dominated by the gloom of winter. However, they are awarded that the new world has H generated out of the ashes of the death. The cooing and singing of birds announce the arrival of spring, the awakeningbf earth, from its deep and long slumber in the winter but such a transition from death to life is unbelievable. The turtle voice from the land and the birds whistle from the bushes. The wood pigeon bubble, the silver shining thrush and the black bird sing melodiously. All above depicts that whistling of the birds is a symbol of life.
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