Maxine Kumin "Woodchucks"

Maxine Kumin "Woodchucks"

In Maxine Kumins' poem "The Woodchucks" this obvious comparison is presented. Almost immediately in the first stanza is the reader introduced to the notion of gassing woodchucks. To make this theme more prominent, in the last stanza, one word is used to emphasize this connection. This word is "Nazi". Kumin writes a satirical poem that compares the gassing of woodchucks to the gassing of Jewish people in World War Two. The poem introduces an obsessive compulsive speaker who acquires a lust for killing woodchucks. Maxine Kumin presents a convincing reflection of animal versus human behaviour through her ...