The document discusses the interconnection between concepts like pain and joy, feeling and numbness, life and death. It references how the artist expresses themselves through their art like a bird's song, and how the music of nature represents the ideal. The bird is used as a symbol representing the continuity of nature and the continuing presence of joy in life despite hungry generations.

2.  The interconnection or mixture of
 Pain/joy
 Feeling/numbness
 Life/death
 Mortal/immortal
 The actual/the ideal
 Separation/connection

3.  Pure or unmixed joy,
 The artist, with the bird’s voice being
self expression or the song being
poetry,
 The music of nature
 The ideal

4.  “the bird is a symbol of the continuity
of nature
 “the bird represents the continuing
presence of joy in life
 “hungry generations”