"The Wind" by James Stephens

    "The Wind" written by James Stephens is a poem describing the wind and giving it human-like features and actions. The author James Stephens uses words like he, hands, and fingers to describe actions of the wind. The wind does not actually have hands or fingers, but Stephens gives the wind these features to give the readers an input of how he views the wind. The poem is short, but straight to the point. Stephens does not use many words, and each stanza is two sentences long.
     In this poem, Stephens explains the characteristics the wind contains, but through features that humans possess. As the wind blows, individuals can hear the wind, see trees swaying, and watch the leaves on the ground get blown around. Instead of just explaining how nature moves when wind blows, Stephens uses human characteristics as if the wind were a person: "He whistled on his fingers and Kicked the withered leaves about"(pg.474).  His explanation of the wind containing human characteristics makes sense because when the wind blows, the leaves move around, as if someone were kicking it. The branches on the trees swaying when the wind blows would look the same if a person where to grab them by their hands and start shaking the branches:"And thumped the branches with his hand,"(pg.474).
      One difference between wind and a human is that wind can never be seen. One can see when wind is blowing only because the objects in between it stand in it's way. Individuals can feel the wind, but still we cannot see the wind. I think the kind of wind Stephens is talking about is not any regular kind of wind that blows and then goes away. I think he is talking about a tornado. Tornados are very strong gusts of wind that can destroy whatever is in it's way, which is why, I believe Stephens wrote his poem about a tornado. He wrote: "And he said he'll kill and kill and kill, And so he will and so he will,"(pg.474). This line made me believe that he was describing a tornado because tornadoes can result into many disasters.