April Is the Saddest Month
April Is the Saddest Month - meaning Summary
Mating Ritual Observed Briefly
The poem offers a short, unadorned vignette of two dogs mating and then moving apart. The speaker watches their quick, physical interaction — from energetic contact to a sudden change in mood as the male withdraws and the female follows. The sparse language compresses motion and feeling into a single moment, suggesting how animal behavior can read as both playful and plaintive when observed closely.
Read Complete AnalysesThere they were stuck dog and bitch halving the compass Then when with his yip they parted oh how frolicsome she grew before him playful dancing and how disconsolate he retreated hang-dog she following through the shrubbery
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