Poetry and Animals
126THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY Because Smart’s poem wasn’t published until the middle of the twen- tieth century, it reflec ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY127 and ethical topics.^14 Other romantic poets, especially William Word- sworth, develop the ly ...
128THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY Winander attempts to transform the voices of the birds into something else, a symbol of some ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY129 mode of the genre are John Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale” and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To a S ...
130THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY He bit an Angle Worm in halves And ate the fellow raw, And then, he drank a Dew From a conve ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY131 understanding—the bird needs to know that the speaker means no harm. The speaker’s approach ...
132THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY His nostrils dilate as my heels embrace him, His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as w ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY133 seventy lines of the boy-speaker’s “translation” of the bird’s song. These lines articulate ...
134THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY as the ultimate existential threat. Observation of the animal has made the poet most profoun ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY135 quality of Art, a Platonic form of joy and beauty). The contrast to Keats’s poem lies in how ...
136THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY A small bird flew before me. He was careful To put a tree between us when he lighted, And sa ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY137 part of the poem is the confusion reflected and created in the phrase “And say no word to te ...
138THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY looking for nothing in particular.^30 There they encounter their version of an animal echo—a ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY139 Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Moose,” one of several brilliant lyrics of animal encounter she wrot ...
140THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY grand, otherworldly.” The poem explicitly asks the question “Why, why do we feel / (we all f ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY141 powerful statement of belief in the meaning of the hawk’s life, that it possessed something ...
142THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY Of forest, each hulk Lurching, each lifted leg leaving a blackness as though Of a broken sno ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY143 his habits— how he loves to flutter his wings in the dust— all attest it; granted, he does i ...
144THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY always wander into varying degrees of anthropomorphism. The “he” the poem begins with, the i ...
THE INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL IN POETRY145 is said to be aware even of the death of a sparrow.^36 The life of the indi- vidual sparrow ...
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