Christian Kwok
Mr. Henes
English 31 - Blue
May 16th, 2016
Some Animals Outside
Thesis: Through Shakespeare's utilization of the motif of animals in his tragedy, Othello, he uses the motif of animals as a means of degrading others for the “inferiority” of race, as well as their personality, ultimately used in the establishment of elevating one's own power and authority.
Poem:
In the perimeter of Evil's home
Only trees can cover and protect the slaves of Evil's world
No wall high enough
No missile powerful enough
No army large enough
Can protect the animals from Evil's happiness
1
Willing worms do as they do,
Storming through the dirt, inch by inch
Untouched by the world around
"Innocence cannot be imitated."
2
The Bluejay soared across the pond
The scream of the jay foreign to all yet recognized
3
"There's many a beast then in a populous city."
Worms free the soil
Emerging from the depths of the ground.
Scooped by a black beak
4
With meals to share and adventures to tell
The "old black ram" flies back to its nest
The realms of the Great Wall shielding the eggs of the
"white ewe"
The general does still not know
"Innocence cannot be imitated."
5
Cracking, crumbling
Shell turns to sight
Food is fed, Stories are shared
The Bluejay whistles
The chicklings cackle
Without despair
6
FOX
7
"Awake the snorting citizens with the bell"
Too late
The Great Wall has crumbled
Fox frolicks away with the chicklings
in its "wholly selfish violence"
8
"It is a purity [the Bluejay] has failed to attain"
Tarnished
Misery
Loss
9
"all weep for [the Bluejay's] loss, which is, roundabout, their own"