Poetry and Animals
46THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY notes that the stag’s nobility allows him to be read as an allegorical rep- resentation of the ill-fat ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY47 His Heart so heavie grew, with Griefe, and Care, That his small Feet his Body could not beare. (115–22 ...
48THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY read as allegories about primarily human affairs, or otherwise ignored, until the rise of animal-orien ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY49 The velvet of her paws, Her coat, that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet, and emerald eyes, She ...
50THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY perhaps most striking about the poem, though, is the seemingly sadis- tic delight the narrator takes i ...
THE ANIMAL IN ALLEGORY51 presenting some form of sympathy for the animal. Gray’s poem presents an animal face that barely masks ...
2 POEMS OF THE ANIMAL A s we saw in the previous chapter, even poems that invoke fable or allegory by depicting explicit anthrop ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL53 is, a poem actually about animals. I showed that even obviously anthro- pomorphic animal poems can engage ...
54POEMS OF THE ANIMAL allegorical, as not about animals at all, we insist on a kind of abyss between vehicle and tenor. So too ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL55 “found among those whose signatories are first and foremost poets and prophets.”^6 I take this to mean th ...
56POEMS OF THE ANIMAL domesticate, consume, and observe. These are the kinds of animals most commonly found in art and poems. I ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL57 tensions within and between humans and animals in general. Animal allegories involve abstraction and thus ...
58POEMS OF THE ANIMAL about the mariner himself, the compulsion of his action, his storytelling, his grip on his audience, and ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL59 Though not without its charms, and while it is certainly about a kind of experience that many readers wil ...
60POEMS OF THE ANIMAL Your own habitations are cosy and private, not pretentious temples. Of course, you have to take lives to ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL61 Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or u ...
62POEMS OF THE ANIMAL on humanity. Robert Frost frequently used animals this way in his poetry. In his poem “The Bear” the narr ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL63 humanity. In this case, though, the narratorless poem is explicitly aware that how we understand animals ...
64POEMS OF THE ANIMAL examples of “that country.” In Europe the wolves have mostly been slaughtered as demons, bulls are ceremo ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL65 The poetry of Marianne Moore similarly presents the animal as a complex signifier. She is one of the mos ...
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