“In Amy Lowell’s poem “Dreams in War Time,” the image of the kite can be seen to symbolize hope and happiness in the face of World War I, during which Lowell wrote the poem. Kite Song (2017) attempts to catch the hopeful, or even stubborn, optimism of the poem’s speaker, who flies the kite in spite of the dark clouds looming in the sky. The piece’s bittersweet tone alludes to the end of Lowell’s poem, in which the speaker continues to walk on, even after the lightning strikes the kite down.”