Poetry Analysis Assignment: Woodchucks by Kumin

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Poem Analysis: Woodchucks
The approach used by the persona at first fails; “gassing the woodchucks didn’t turn at right.” The gardener thought of being a pacifist by taking the woodchucks through a merciful sheep of death as she is optimistic thinking it would work. Killing something cannot be a merciful act, and therefore the author, in this case, utilizes ironical statements; “the knockout bomb from feed and grains...” The author demonstrates in the poem an environment where the farmer is frustrated in making attempts to remove the woodchucks. At the start of the poem it seems not to address serious concerns, but as it progresses, the seriousness in it is seen. The author also portrays the speaker as a farmer with lots of frustrations who believes that ending the lives of woodchucks is the only solution to the problems he is facingCITATION Max14 \p "stanza 1" \l 1033 (Maxine stanza 1).
The poem utilizes stylistic devices like metaphors for instance, in demonstrating the thinness of the mother’s teeth he compares them with the needle; “her needle teeth still hooked in ...” He has also used imagery by comparing the woodchucks to some living organism that he will kill. The only way of getting rid of the woodchucks according to the farmer is through killing them, though not a painful death but a quick oneCITATION Max14 \p "stanza 4" \l 1033 (Maxine stanza 4).
In the poem, the rhyme scheme can be seen throughout. However, the rhyming scheme in this sense cannot be the conventional one. It, therefore, demonstrate that every stanza follows a par...