colorful birdies

Throughout literature, there's always a plethora of birds. They're different colors and shapes and kinds, but they usually all mean the same things. Some are gloom and doom birds while some are happy and carefree birds. It just matters the context and type of bird. In these two poems, the birds seem to be a figure for what's inside the writers. In the Bluebird, the bird is the spirit that he never let die, but hides away for a little bit at a time. In I Will Try, the bird symbolizes the spirit that the writer wants to let free, but feels they cannot.