"The Oven Bird" is a 1916 poem by Robert Frost, first published in Mountain Interval.
The poem is written in sonnet form and describes an ovenbird singing.
[1] Several Frost biographers and critics have interpreted the poem as autobiographical.
[3] There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.