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Human Nature in Maxine Kumin's Woodchucks
Title: Human Nature in Maxine Kumin's Woodchucks
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1047 | Pages: 4.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Human Nature in Maxine Kumin's Woodchucks
Human Nature in Maxine Kumin’s “Woodchucks”
Maxine’s Kumin’s “Woodchucks” is a literal description a sort of woodchuck hunt in her garden. Through further examination of her words, one can sense her suggestions about human nature. With her use of tone, the reader can observe a change in her demeanor from stanza to stanza. In the poem, the author is pestered by woodchucks that are eating and destroying her garden. At first, she …showed first 75 words of 1047 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1047 total…their face. Line 16 mentions that she draws a bead on the “littlest woodchucks face”. The author has morphed from a “pacifist” to a killer, yet she wishes it hadn’t come to that. She wishes she could have gassed the woodchucks and that would have been the end of it. Kumin is offering that it is human to have a mean streak within us, and perhaps we are not all evil because we have guilt.
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