The Lion
The Lion - meaning Summary
Comic Survival Advice
This short comic poem offers mock survival advice by treating a dangerous encounter with a lion as a domestic problem solved through childish logic. The speaker proposes staying motionless and pretending to be ill until the lion loses interest. Its tone is playful and absurd, turning fear into farce and hinting at human attempts to outwit danger with simple, almost childlike strategies rather than courage or flight.
Read Complete AnalysesIf you're attacked by a Lion Find fresh underpants to try on Lay on the ground quite still Pretend you are very ill Keep like that day after day Perhaps the lion will go away
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