Original poem reprinted online here: "The Hen Swallows a Worm or Slug" by A. V. Christie Originally read: May 9, 2013 More information about the Poet: A. V. Christie The very first word I circled and labeled, "hen and speaker." There's a comparative metaphor going to be explored in the first stanza. Where the poem goes after describing the metaphor will be explored in the second stanza. I gleamed this knowledge from the first word. Does that mean all poems like this that start out with "we" turn out like this. Probably not, but the majority bringing in an item in the subject and then starting off with "we," alerts my metaphor senses. And as the poem starts the action of scratching is compared. "she kicks off / in a fan behind her. I use a stick / to dig." The action of uncovering has a heavy handed connotation for discovery, but what they both find are pretty moot "roots" and "a slug." This is something n...
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