Animals Are Passing from Our Lives (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Levine
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Dramatic monologue
- Genres: Poetry, Dramatic monologue
The Poem
Philip Levine’s often anthologized “Animals Are Passing from Our Lives” consists of six stanzas of four lines each. The first stanza is a discrete statement of self-description, followed by five stanzas that express the thoughts of the speaker in anticipation of the termination of the speaker’s existence. A mood of mordant irony is established from the start as the reader learns from the speaker’s self-portrait that the poem is an expression of the flow of consciousness in the mind of a pig destined for slaughter. “It’s wonderful how I jog/ on four...
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