Animal Poems

Both of these poems explain the cruel death of animals in nature.  The first poem is more harsh than the second one where in the first one the narrator actually kills the woodchucks and in the second one the deer is already dead and the man approaches how to handle the deer's death.  The tone in the first one is very destructive.  The verbs used in the first one are harsh like knockout bomb, beheading, killing and hunt.  These verbs effectively communicate the destructive nature of the first poem and effectively ilustrates the narrators relationship with nature.  This relationship is a very unappreciative relationship where the narrator kills the woodchucks as if they were not animals.  Dehumanizing the animals to mere unimportant objects.  "Underground the quiet Nazi way" this effectively ends the poem as we see everything come into perspective and really see the narrators relationship with nature.  The tone is effectively contrasted but the outcome is just the same.  The tone of the second one is that the man is more observant and really cares about nature.  He runs all the consequences in his head before he makes a decision to throw the deer over the edge.  He understands that if he leaves the deer, it will be worse for the road as more deer will come and more will die either from cars hitting them or from guns.  The man does the logical thing and throws the deer off the edge.  The man has more appreciation for nature than the narrator in the first poem yet both of the poems end up with the death of an animal.