When he hears the call "Wes-ley-Wells" each morning, he understands his responsibility of labor on the family farm. The speaker is carrying on the tradition with his work that was done long ago by his grandfather, Wesley Wells. Once the whippoorwill has woken the speaker in the poem, the bird can "drowse all morning in his grassy hut."(lines 24 & 25) This makes it seem like the instant the speaker is awake, the whippoorwill's everyday job is done. A sense of relief comes about in the last stanza. By saying, "It is good to wake early in the high summer with work to do, and look out the window at the ghost bird lifting away to drowse all morning in his grassy hut"(lines 18-25), the speaker of the...

When he writes his words, it is easily noticeable that he believes that nature is beautiful, which is provided by mother nature. It is apparent that the whippoorwill is an imaginary representation of Hall's long lost grandfather due to his descriptive words and meanings. Along with that, this poem represents how the author sees nature and his family, which makes the reader believe his love for both through each line that holds his feelings.