Hi all, I wanted to see if anyone could help me with the structure of the poem "Pet Panther" by A.R. Ammons? Also, I understand the poem is an extended metaphor, but what would be some of the metaphors in the poem? Any help would be appreciated :) My attention is a wild animal: it will if idle make trouble where there was no harm: it will sniff and scratch at the breath’s sills: it will wind itself tight around the pulse or, undistracted by verbal toys, pommel the heart frantic: it will pounce on a stalled riddle and wrestle the mind numb: attention, fierce animal I cry, as it coughs in my face, dislodges boulders in my belly, lie down, be still, have mercy, here is song, coils of song, play it out, run with it.
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Hi all, I wanted to see if anyone could help me with the structure of the poem "Pet Panther" by A.R. Ammons? Also, I understand the poem is an extended metaphor, but what would be some of the metaphors in the poem? Any help would be appreciated :)
My attention is a wild
animal: it will if idle
make trouble where there
was no harm: it will
sniff and scratch at the
breath’s sills:
it will wind itself tight
around the pulse
or, undistracted by
verbal toys, pommel the
heart frantic: it will
pounce on a stalled riddle
and wrestle the mind numb:
attention, fierce animal
I cry, as it coughs in my
face, dislodges boulders
in my belly, lie down, be
still, have mercy, here
is song, coils of song, play
it out, run with it.
hi
idk
go cry about it
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