Like an Animal
Like an Animal - meaning Summary
Fear Behind Prison Walls
The poem depicts an internal collapse and persistent fear shaped by imprisonment. The speaker describes a part of himself as dead and marked by physical gestures—scraping fingernails and chalk-white scars—which externalize anxiety and a fraught sense of identity. It presents confinement not just as a location but as a state that hides the "real me" while the speaker confronts the possibility of losing himself to fear and the prison experience.
Read Complete AnalysesBehind the smooth texture Of my eyes, way inside me, A part of me has died: I move my bloody fingernails Across it, hard as a blackboard, Run my fingers along it, The chalk white scars That say I AM SCARED, Scared of what might become Of me, the real me, Behind these prison walls.
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