February

This poem was extremely gruesome. The images described were extremely vivid...in a bad way. The speaker is reflecting on the cat's life. The cat is indiffernet to the speaker. It just lazily does whatever it wants. Each good image was followed by a disturbing image. It seemed like the speaker would comment on the cat in a positive way and then just immediately after would provide the audience with something discusting the cat was doing. The theme of the poem is that sex and territory will finish us off in the end. When this theme is presented, there is a shift from the description of the cat to humans. My favorite line was "he shoots, he scores", this is a reference to hockey but it is also a reference to sez and territory. The images in this poem were good descriptions of this month because it is a month of despair and shows how the speaker was having a hard time with the annoying cat. There is a shift towards the end when the speaker talks to the cat (apostrophe) and gives it a call to action. It is not only talking to the cat, but giving a message to the audience about the importance of optomism.