Poetry and Animals
66POEMS OF THE ANIMAL were there, the small cats; and the parakeet— trivial and humdrum on examination, destroying bark and por ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL67 made products of culture and art, as they are in this poem and in a zoo, and so art can be “malignant / i ...
68POEMS OF THE ANIMAL propose that there is something essentially good about it. “For some of these, / It could not be the plac ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL69 Rib”).^30 The speakers of each of these poems is explicit in his inability actually to define the animal, ...
70POEMS OF THE ANIMAL The poem offers an ambiguous justification of hunting, but it reveals genuine conflict over the act of ki ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL71 as connecting with an ancient tradition that links the animal to the divine and unfallen. That the myster ...
72POEMS OF THE ANIMAL wonder by anthropomorphizing animals (or simply reading children’s literature to the speaker, which is it ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL73 more fully inhabit the world than humans do; the speaker asserts that “they do not dream of us” (a dubiou ...
74POEMS OF THE ANIMAL pea plants, the growth of a field, the behavior of a family of crows on the edge of the field, and the mo ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL75 animals “come up to link my lost people / with the patient domestic beasts of my life.”^40 Animals dead a ...
76POEMS OF THE ANIMAL poet to capture and fix the moment in the poem, which he recognizes as impossible since the birds “tower ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL77 to survive in such a place, but in the sense that we derive our own nature, our very being, from our inte ...
78POEMS OF THE ANIMAL status as a complaint and intervention. The poem is a letter to the ninth- century Chinese poet who wrote ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL79 for animals in general, since he survives as an idea and symbol. The last lines of the poem express profo ...
80POEMS OF THE ANIMAL a “domesticated bearded dragon $400.”^48 This animal is not so much a companion, one imagines, as a curio ...
POEMS OF THE ANIMAL81 so drastically that “now we are their custodians.” By declaring owner- ship of the entire planet, by crea ...
82POEMS OF THE ANIMAL of course there will be no end to the animal as food source—only to the animal as kin in the larger envir ...
3 POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE The Species Poem A mong the uncountable poems that feature animals there is an impressively large number ...
84POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE multiple filters, scales, and degrees of focus in our perception of ani- mals, and so it is worth dwell ...
POETRY AS FIELD GUIDE85 Abbey argues that in naming the natural world “we are lost,” but Aldo Leopold is more precise and pragm ...
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