Monday, July 18, 2011

I need help with this poem?

There are strong contrasts between the way the poem describes the jaguar and the way it describes the other zoo animals. For one thing, the jaguar gets three stanzas to itself, while all the other animals are crammed together in to just two stanzas. But there's more to it than that. Look at the specific words and phrases that the poem uses to describe the jaguar -- "hurrying enraged," "fierce fuse," "the world rolls," etc. -- and compare those descriptions with the ways in which the poem describes the other animals. The contrasts are pretty noticeable.

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