Muier
Muier - meaning Summary
Return with Unexpected Offspring
The speaker addresses a black Persian cat that was sent to a lonely Yankee farm to rest but returns unexpectedly burdened with offspring. The poem expresses irritation and dismay at the cat’s changed condition, hinting that parenthood is an unwanted complication. It compresses domestic frustration, failed expectations and a reluctant tenderness into a short, direct address that treats the animal’s fate as a human moral inconvenience.
Read Complete AnalysesOh, black Persian cat! Was not your life already cursed with offspring? We took you for rest to that old Yankee farm, —so lonely and with so many field mice in the long grass — and you return to us in this condition —! Oh, black Persian cat.
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