Richard Eberhart's 'The Groundhog'

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Have you ever went to a place year after year? Would you continue returning to that place if an animal corpse is there? In Richard Eberhart’s “The Groundhog,” the main character returns to the same dead groundhog every once in awhile. Every time he returns, though, he has a different perception of the groundhog. In three of the four sections of Eberhart’s poem, the narrator was curious about the groundhog, thought it was magnificent, and was disappointed by it. The first time the narrator met the groundhog, the narrator was curious. Phrases such as “I poked him,” “vigor circumscribed the skies,” and “immense energy,” show liveliness, and liveliness is often connected with curiosity. In addition, at the beginning, he didn't know

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