The Song of Summer is, "...not silent, with its chatter takes possession of the heights beneath the elms." It basically is a lively boisterous event of which birds sing and call to one another. However, at the very end there seems to be a strange reference of the chastity of a bee being relative to the Virgin Mary being inviolate.
A bee can be morally pure in the sense that it keeps quiet in its dedication to its work. The birds being morally disrupt, or lacking chastity is represented in their wild can uncontrolled calls. "...the nightingale...pours out a long warbling through the breeze...the kite causes the sky to echo...thus birds everywhere celebrate for everyone the song of summer." In the middle of all this the strange reference of the bee was purposed to give perspective to the reader that somewhere deep within this celebration, or sinful ways, there is someone doing what they are supposed to.
"...if not she who bore Christ in her womb inviolate." If the Virgin Mary had not been that bee who kept her chastity and-and I want to add- worked at her relationship with God as a bee works, then how could have God used her to give birth to his manifestation? Mary kept herself away from temptation and humbled herself before God as his child and he chose her. Otherwise, she would be inviolate, or untouchable to God.
Anonymous. "The Song of Summer." 2012. The Norton Anthology World Literature. 3rd ed. Vol. B. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012. 322-23. Print.
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