What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and blue-birds that sang upon the bough when it was in blossom last Spring. In Summer whole flocks of them come fluttering about the fruit-trees under the window: so I have singing birds all the year round. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The idea of having singing or talking birds is a very positive one. To hear the little chirps and twitters coming out of the piece of wood shows happiness and cheerfulness. But what’s more, it also shows how the writer believes the wood is alive: it is not just a material object but also a living thing. The fact that birds can be found singing and living in the same place all year round shows how optimistic he is about the future of this world.

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