Comparing The Fish 'And Woodchucks' Poems

181 Words1 Page
bulb-icon

Recommended: Nature in poetry

I believe each one of these poets has a deep respect for the animals in their poems. The poets, in my opinion, doesn't really want to kill the animals they speak of. Even the narrator in the Woodchucks describes herself as a pacifist, but she is forced to make the choice between the woodchucks life or hers. She has a vegetable garden and the family of Woodchucks keep eating her families food. The narrator speaks of the last woodchuck that has become a formidable opponent, "There’s one chuck left. Old wily fellow, he keeps me cocked and ready day after day after day. All night I hunt his humped-up form. I dream I sight along the barrel in my sleep." In The Fish poem, you begin to see the transition by the narrator of someone ogling their prize

Show More
Related

  • Comparison Of Letters To A Young Poet And Black Swan Green

    628 Words  | 2 Pages

    Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke and Black Swan Green by David Mitchell introduce a central idea about beauty; Rilke’s being beauty within, and Mitchell’s being beauty is. Rilke develops it through his own narration, yet Mitchell develops it through a character’s experience (Madame Crommelynck). Individual identity is also a central idea pertaining to both Rilke and Mitchell. Rilke explains individual identity to someone else while Mitchell makes it so the main character (Jason) is to struggle with individual identity. The authors both take a similar approach to develop and refine their central ideas, beauty and individual identity, beauty and individual identity.

    Read More

  • Woodchucks Poem Essay

    646 Words  | 2 Pages

    In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker clearly identifies that some woodchucks are annoying her. To solve this problem, the speaker uses gas as a way to eliminate the pests quickly and painlessly much like the Nazis tried to eradicate the Jews from their presence. Gassing the woodchucks is an easy way to remove the pests because using gas does not involve looking at the victims as they are put to death. This is also why the Nazis used the gassing methods to kill the Jews. After time this method was not as widely used due to the resilience of the woodchucks and Jews. Thus, this led the killers to use more ruthless techniques.

    Read More

  • Compare And Contrast The Poem And The Rose That Grew From Concrete

    790 Words  | 2 Pages

    Imagine you were the rose trying to grow in concrete; would you have made it out or die trying or maybe you just gave up. So think about it, what would you have really done? The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” is about a rose that grew in concrete a metaphor that shows that you have to get past your problems to succeed. And the poem “Mother to Son” is about a mother explaining how hard life is a metaphor. Both poems share the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles, but the way the authors developed the theme was similar and different.

    Read More

  • Compare and Contrast the Poetry of James Berry and John Betjeman, with

    1438 Words  | 3 Pages

    came as a big shock to her. London is a lot bigger and much less

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Traveling Through The Dark

    1266 Words  | 3 Pages

    Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford and Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin are both short poems dealing with cruel acts perpetrated towards animals. In Traveling Through the Dark this takes the form of the author pushing a dead deer, pregnant with a still alive foal, off a cliff. Meanwhile, in Woodchucks the narrator attempts to gas and later shoots the title animal in a manner reminiscent of Nazi’s persecution of Jews in the Holocaust. While these poems are on similar topics, differences in their meaning appear when looking deeper. Woodchucks uses a fairly regular rhyme scheme and a series of short sentences and phrases, diction heavy with weapon references and allusions to historical atrocities, and detailed descriptions to create a maniacal tone, which is thus critical of many human actions. Meanwhile, Traveling uses a form similar to a couplet but lacking rhyme and meter and with an extra stanza, an emphasis on car diction and interesting use of pronouns, and description shifting from the deer to the car, creating a tone threat shifts from reverent to distant, making the actions of the speaker seem weighty, but necessary.

    Read More

  • Poetry Comparison Essay

    602 Words  | 2 Pages

    As Edgar Allan Poe once stated, “I would define, in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” The two poems, “Birthday,” and “The Secret Life of Books” use different diction, theme, and perspective to give them a unique identity. Each author uses different literary devices to portray a different meaning.

    Read More

  • Compare & Contrast 6 Poems

    1499 Words  | 3 Pages

    All the poems you have read are preoccupied with violence and/or death. Compare the ways in which the poets explore this preoccupation. What motivations or emotions do the poets suggest lie behind the preoccupation?

    Read More

  • Wyatt and Spenser

    447 Words  | 1 Pages

    Representing a woman as a gentle, but wild animal is appropriate in these two poems because the woman is compared to a deer. The deer, although it lives in the wild, is not a vicious animal, but a graceful creature. The woman and the deer have similar qualities in both poems. Lines 5-7 in Wyatt’s poem shows that one may tire chasing a deer, but the thrill of the chase does not make him want to take his mind off of it. This is also true when a man is pursuing a woman. It is hard for one to give up a chase, especially if it is a thrill, and the reward is worth it. In Spenser’s poem, the woman and the deer also have similar qualities.

    Read More

  • A Comparison of Poems About London

    496 Words  | 1 Pages

    A Comparison of Poems About London 'London', by William Blake, and William Wordsworth's untitled poem, composed on Westminster Bridge, are two different poems written with different styles and techniques to portray their feelings towards London. They are both written in the romantic era and are very passionate in the way they convey their (as both are written in first person) differing opinions on London. Wordsworth's sonnet shows all the positive points and that in his opinion London is an admirable place. However, Blake speaks of a much bleaker London, which contrasts greatly in opinion. Rather than writing his poem on opinion, he uses fact to inform and protest against what he feels is wrong with the city.

    Read More

  • An Analysis Of The Poem 'The Fish'

    1294 Words  | 3 Pages

    In the poem ‘The Fish’, the use of short lines and the presence of enjambments indicate that the poet, Bishop, is giving her own thoughts. This form of poetry gives the impression that the poet is not simply writing the words on a piece of paper but is rather speaking them out loud. The poem is presented in a way that the audience feels as if the poet was present at the scene and was narrating the events that occurred throughout the poem (Bishop 463). The poem is also written as a single stanza. The decision to write it this way may have been in an attempt to portray the long ordeal that fishermen engage in when fishing. In doing so, bishop is able to prepare the audience for the poem and to make sure

    Read More

  • The Thickness Of Ice Analysis

    989 Words  | 2 Pages

    A Comparison of Love Poetry Works Cited Not Included Love is one of the most popular poetic themes. It is an intensely personal theme and can be approached in a great variety of ways. It is a theme affected by times. Many people believe that the true definition of love is found in the Bible.

    Read More

  • Comparison and Contrasting Between 3 poems: - The Flea (John Donne),

    938 Words  | 2 Pages

    the flea, which is merely about sex. It is easy to see the love shown

    Read More

  • The Hawk Essay

    1032 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...k, results in a highly negative image. For example, ¡§there is no sophistry in my body. My manners are tearing off heads ¡V the allotment of death¡¨ conveys a tone of malice and savageness. Thus the idea of hawk is critical. On the other hand, Jeffers admires the courage of the hawk in his poem. He describes the submission in the bird, and the agony if experiences since it is physically stronger than other creatures but is now powerless. There is a sense of pity and sympathy as Jeffers describes the internal strength the hawk tries to maintain. Admiration is depicted in ¡§Beautiful and wild, the hawk, and men that are dying, remember him,¡¨ where he suggests that even men pay respect to the boldness the hawk possesses. These contrasting concepts of criticism ad admiration are responsible for the difference of ideas expressed in the two poems.

    Read More

  • Comparing the Poems City Jungle by Pie Corbett, London by William Blake and Londinium by Catatonia

    926 Words  | 2 Pages

    Comparing the Poems City Jungle by Pie Corbett, London by William Blake and Londinium by Catatonia

    Read More

  • A Vision John Clare Analysis

    1217 Words  | 3 Pages

    John Clare was an English poet who lived mostly in rural Northamptonshire from 1793 to 1864 . He wrote many poems, essays and letters about love, politics, sex, corruption, environmental and social change, poverty and folk life . The poet, John Clare, interested me more then the other poets from the Romantic period because of his colourful background. In 1837, he had a mental breakdown and was admitted to an asylum in Epping Forest. Four years later, he discharged himself and walked the 80 miles home in three and a half days, living on grass he ate by the side of the road. Later that year (1841), he was certified insane and was committed to the Northampton Asylum. He lived there until his death in 1864 writing occasionally. The two poems from the title were written two years apart while Clare was at the asylum . They reflect the poets own thoughts and feelings as he is heard as the narrator making the poems biographical, almost as if they were a page from a diary. They have both only recently (with some of his other poems written when at the asylum), been published from manuscripts and the full contents of his work recognised. When first read, it appears that they almost share an identical theme of loneliness and despair, but after a second and third reading, there is some remarkable dissimilarity. Both "A Vision" and "I am" are very personal, intimate poems, both displaying the inner workings and substance of Clare's supposedly deranged mind. While "A Vision" is a definitive statement about Clare's asylum life, "I Am" is a deeper exploration into the chaos of sanatorium life. The rejection of the world in "A Vision" is from a more mature voice that could possibly dispense the rationality of a world-weary writer. How...

    Read More

More about Comparing The Fish 'And Woodchucks' Poems

Open Document