In
Davies' "The Kingfisher," the poet is directly addressing a kingfisher. He suggests
that the kingfisher took its beautiful colors from its mother, "the Rainbow," and also
that the mother of the rainbow "was Tears." Tears, then, is ahere: the poet seems to
be suggesting that rainbowswhich are caused by the combination of rain and sunshineare somehow
also a product of sadness. The association between rain and sorrow brings us to the idea of
tears.
Davies continues the semantic field of tears and sorrow by suggesting
that he, the poet, like the kingfisher, enjoys a "lonely pool," far away from people,
where he can (like a dead person) "haunt" the space alongside "trees that
weep." The motif of tears seems to represent mourning or appreciation of sad, lonely
places. The kingfisher is a "glorious" and "proud" bird which could equally
display itself before kings and in open spaces, but the poet feels an affinity with it because,
as an ultimate descendant of "tears," it prefers modesty and quiet contemplationas the
poet does himself.
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