Summary of the poem 'David' by earle birney?

Answer 1

After introducing us to David, the narrator describes a particular climb they had been anticipating for months. During the ascent, the narrator slips. David saves him and then slips and falls himself, landing many feet below on a jagged rock that has broken both his fall and his back, leaving him paralyzed. David asks his friend to push him over the cliff citing paralysis as no way for someone like himself to live, i.e., in a wheelchair. The narrator acquiesces.

Answer 2

-snow like fire

-marten moving like quicksilver

-seracs that shone like frozen saltgreen waves

Answer 3

Line 107-108. "My throat stopped when i reached him, for he was alive." Your throat can't stop.

Answer 4

the goat represents the fall of David and the easyness to fall

the bird represents David's unwillingness to be injured/"useless"

Answer 5

the first few lines