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How Much Wood, Could a Woodchuck Chuck, if a Woodchuck was a Tiger? - College Essay

How Much Wood, Could a Woodchuck Chuck, if a Woodchuck was a Tiger?

Steven Sikes
Professor McGinn
English Comp 2
21 March 2012

How Much Wood, Could a Woodchuck Chuck, if a Woodchuck was a Tiger?

Tigers are proud and dominant, while woodchucks are small and meager, more bothersome then beautiful to look at. Although both could be considered pests to some, each are being compared and contrasted in two completely different ways. Maxine Kumin writes solely about her distaste towards woodchucks and Adrienne Rich writes about her long lost dream of having the characteristics of a tiger.
Pesky garden animals are usually nothing more than troublesome and literally eat all the food in your garden, but as the poem progresses, Maxine Kumin turns the ...

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sharply from a pacifist to a "hawk eye killer." With this change in name-calling throughout the poem, the audience views the narrator, as someone who lives one life and surprises herself by becoming someone she didn't think she'd ever know. The audience begins to see how the narrator enjoys the weight of the gun in her hands when she hunts all night for the "old wily fellow, the last chuck left." All night while she sleeps she dreams of the hunt. The narrator of Woodchucks wants to get rid of the woodchucks in their environment, while the narrator's aunt in Aunt Jennifer's Tigers is describing more of the tiger's environment rather than her own and how she wishes to be more like them.
Adrienne Rich writes of the tigers as "they pace in sleek chivalric certainty," unlike woodchucks that shelter themselves deep underground almost as if they are hiding from everything. Aunt Jennifer is consumed with the weight of her husband's wedding band and the suffocation of the society ...

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Added: 4/8/2012 10:06:42 PM
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