A Wounded Deer — leaps highest –
I’ve heard the Hunter tell –
‘Tis but the Ecstasy of death –
And then the Brake is still!
I’ve heard the Hunter tell –
‘Tis but the Ecstasy of death –
And then the Brake is still!
The Smitten Rock that gushes!
The trampled Steel that springs!
A Cheek is always redder
Just where the Hectic stings!
Mirth is the Mail of Anguish
In which it Cautious Arm,
Lest anybody spy the blood
And “you’re hurt” exclaim!
The visual in the opening stanza is very very affective in my opinion. Personally, i find the idea of a wounded deer about to die with extacy to be an interesting point of view. The idea is sort of suggestive that animals have a soul. Just the idea of a dear leaping high because it is about to die … very interesting i suppose. hm.
well there are a lotof interesting techniques used throughout this poem. At the very end, the word exclaim and the word arm are both used as a slant rhyme. I feel inclined to say that if they were anyless of rhyming friends, they wouldn’t even be able to be called a slant rhyme. None-the-less they are a slant rhyme.
The excessive use of exclamation marks creates a very excited tone through-out the entire poem. A lack of these marks, could allow this poem to become all to dreary, so i believe that the purpose of these marks is to create a more excited tone with a sort of dark theme. The end result is not morbid however.
Unfortunately i do not understand the last two stanzas… but i feel that the line
