Richard Wilbur's "Cigales"

In the poem “Cigales,” Richard Wilbur tries to explain the idea that cigales are just like people. Cigales sing, but they can’t hear what they are chanting. People also do things that they don’t see or don’t understand, while others will react to it in some kind of way.
The tone of the poem can be described as “admiring,” because the author is talking about how great the song of a cigale is. In the second stanza, Richard Wilbur describes that when we hear the song of a cigale, we feel some kind of “freshness” inside of us because we enjoy their song. This interesting noise brings “freshness” in our lungs, and that is a positive aspect of the song of cigales. But he also states in the last stanza, that this song is “uncomprehended.”
In this poem, Richard Wilbur uses different techniques to make his work more colorful. In the first stanza, Wilbur uses a simile by saying “…those windless summer evenings, swollen to stasis by too-substantial melodies, rich ...