Both poems by Margaret Avison and PK Page are common to the point of becoming a cliché in literary criticism to confidently state that both were metafictional to some extent. The beauty and liveliness of the language and the structure of the lexical items employed and utilized make it imperative to recognize both poets' right to fame and fame. Romance is different from religion. Margaret Avison's use of diction implies that the poet is writing a powerful prayer in search of enlightenment and, absurdly, all the energy of the language is devoted to self-denial in an attempt to touch the base and get closer to the sun of knowledge. . The characterization of the storm shows that Man remains weak, defenseless and must seek rescue from a stronger being while undoubtedly submitting to a power infinitely greater than himself. The thematic importance of romantic connotations and associations in PK Page's “Poor Bird” use of the oxymoron with man's passivity, blindness, ignorance and hesitation cannot be ignored. We are certainly led to see in the qualities of the sandpiper the type of the poet. The connection between the bird and the poet continues through the focus of the grains of sand. The fact that the medium of the message is poetry can only serve to draw attention to the connections between the two poets and the topics both women write about. In the case of PK Page, we are led to notice the slightly comic references to the bird's fussiness, running on the sand, 'fine, clumsy'. Bishop's tone here suggests that he is all too familiar with these personality traits as he is aware of and knows his own character. In the case of Margaret's Avison recognition, contact and submission to power... middle of paper ...that reminds her of God and His ability to create, in his last stanza Page also interjects that occasionally and unexpectedly man he finds himself in front of God's creation: A fish painted like a work of art before his eyes reminds him of something he doesn't know that he has been searching all his long life for something that maybe doesn't even exist! Poor bird, indeed! Poor dazed creature. Here Page not only mocks the skeptics with his sarcasm, but also pities them for not noticing what is clearly evident in the human environment, so much so that it is embedded in the human psyche. The human need is not to discover anything new, but to simply be “reminded” of something that has slipped through the time wasted in research. Ultimately it is indicating that the man is not actually searching, nor is he lost but frankly arrogant and his arrogance is what leads him to be in such a dazed state.