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	Animal Poems Selected by bobthym
	Description I've tied poems to chairs and beaten confessions out of them with hoses in elementary school, middle school, high school, college, and graduate school. A few years back, I gave up the quest of trying to find out what they really mean, and then started to enjoy them for their sounds, their stories, and their experimentation. At that point, I noticed how many poets write about animals. I have lots of questions and a few opinions about what is going on here. Many discuss man's relationship with nature, many explore man's characteristics and project them upon animals, and many are about the qualities of the animals themselves. Afterall, sometimes a cigar is simply a cigar. Have fun and enjoy!
	Synopsis A List of Animal Poems for the Young and Old

Poetry
•	Mole by Wyatt Prunty
•	I Am! Said the Lamb [excerpt] by Theodore Roethke
•	Animals and Art by Ron Padgett
•	Baby Tortoise by D. H. Lawrence
•	Evening Hawk by Robert Penn Warren
•	Hope is the thing with feathers (254) by Emily Dickinson
•	In the Memphis Airport by Timothy Steele
•	Leda and the Swan by W. B. Yeats
•	Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
•	Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
•	The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop
•	The Bear by Galway Kinnell
•	The Caterpillar by Robert Graves
•	The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes
•	The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
•	The Dusk of Horses by James Dickey
•	The Eagle by Lord Alfred Tennyson
•	The Elephant is Slow to Mate by D.H. Lawrence
•	The Fly by William Blake
•	The Lamb by William Blake
•	The Maldive Shark by Herman Melville
•	The Moose by Elizabeth Bishop
•	The Shark's Parlor by James Dickey
•	The Tyger by William Blake
•	The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
•	The White Horse by D. H. Lawrence
•	The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall Jarrell
•	Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
•	World Below the Brine by Walt Whitman


Prose
•	Thirteen Ways of Looking: Poems About Birds