The poem 'What a Bird Thought' tells the story of a growing bird and how its idea of the world changes over time. At the beginning, the bird lived inside an egg. This first home was safe and comfortable. Because the shell was pale blue and round, the young bird believed that the entire world was small, round, and made of blue shell.
Later, the baby bird hatched and moved into a little nest made of dry straw. It rested snugly beside its mother and felt very protected. Since it could only see the straw around it, the bird thought that the whole world was made of straw. As time passed, the bird grew stronger and fluttered out of its nest onto the branches of the tree. When it looked around and saw green leaves everywhere, it felt it had been blind earlier. It now believed that the whole world was made of leaves.
Finally, the bird grew into an adult, quite fit for grown-up labours. It spread its wings and flew far beyond the leafy tree into the open sky. Looking at the vast sky, the bird realized that the world was much bigger and more wonderful than it had ever imagined. It admitted that it did not know how the world was really made, and neither did its neighbours. Through this journey, the poem shows us that as we grow up and step out to explore new places, our view of the world becomes wider and deeper.