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Original poem reprinted online here: "Hedgehog" by Paul Muldoon Originally read: June 20, 2013 More information about the Poet: Paul Muldoon "Why start out with a snail? comparative metaphor and how to read the poem -- absurd but somewhat reasoned images."  That's the first comment past me put on this poem.  Well, I'm pretty sure from the first stanza no one could guess where this poem ends up, but it makes sense when a reader goes back to the beginning and reads the poem again.  But the comparative metaphor, the absurd, the images -- those are important aspects in this poem. "Why start out with a snail?"  Yes, this comment is about the first stanza.  The image of the snail is compared to a hovercraft -- and although the images are surreal, the important line here is, "Rubber cushion of itself, / Sharing its secret"  The last line is the change of tempo from image to rhetoric / however, the cushion of itself blends in two concepts -- the ...