The Groundhog (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Eberhart
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, Death or dying, Life and death, Life, biological, Mortality, Animals, Seasons
The Poem
“The Groundhog” is a poem in free verse; its forty-eight lines are marked by no formal divisions. It traces a process of development in four main stages, however; the first stage occupies the first twenty-four lines, while the last three are allotted eight lines each.
The speaker, the “I” of the poem, is never clearly identified but is probably a man of thoughtful, even scholarly, habits. He recounts a series of four encounters with a dead groundhog, ending in the present, three years after his first sight of the lifeless animal.
Strong emotions...
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