[Alessio Boni]

Hello!

It's short and sad, but gives a great deal to subjective interpretation.

It's almost as if, after S2, the narrator himself, bereft of all his friends, love, and faith, has only himself to look upon; One malicious crow being himself but following a bad ethos of life, another being pious, and of course, the one which I believe to be a complete reflection of the narrator's self and lack of potence in thwarting the former two, the third and 'neutral' bird who is unable to do anything but let himself be governed by these two other feelings of the same self, and to gaze upon his future governed by two conflicting instincts.

I could also go further and stretch the interpretation of the crow 'watching well' the eyes of the narrator, mirroring his own self directly, as Dante does in the 7th Bolgia with the snakes, but that would risk not staying faithful to segments of your poem, as the third crow could be looking upon his two councils, instead of the narrator himself, or vice versa. You have left that unclear, and its good like that in my opinion!

It's a potent image of desolation, the Iambic Tetrameter is clean, and I enjoyed it! (Hope my comment made sense)

Bravo.

By 'Sad' I DO NOT mean anything of a negative type, only its tone.