Analysis Of E. E Cummings 'Poem Deer At Providencia'

Hook. in E.ECummings poem “next to god of course america I” soldiers think they are fighting and later on be respected but the author writes otherwise, also in the story “The Deer at Providencia” Annie Dillard writes about a woman see a deer suffer, and later on in the story, compares it to a man who burned his face twice. E.E Cummings shows irony through the warriors and Annie Dillard shows irony through the Deer and Alan, and they both show irony in their situations with god. In Cummings poem, the warriors thin they are going to be respected as heroes, but the author writes otherwise. At the beginning of the poem he reads like one of those normal patriotic poems, then the mood quickly changes. When he says “thy sons acclaim your glorious …show more content…
When the deer was stuck to the tree, he thrashed trying to get itself free, but only succeeded in making the situation worse for itself. The Deer “trying to paw itself free of the rope,... had scratched its own neck with its hooves… now three of its feet were hooked in the rope under its jaw.” (Dillard 24) meaning the deer sincerely wanted to get out of the situation, but just couldn’t help itself. Also in the story a man is suffering, but in a different way. In the story the reader explains that people who suffer from big and severe burns, are not happy in life and would rather end it, because to them there is no way of escaping it. Alan says, “if my friend hadn't been there, I would have jumped into a canal with a rock around my neck”(111) explaining he would have ended it right there. The burning of his face the second time around was his fault, so ironically he would ask why him, if he had and packed the gunpowder wrong, none of that would have happened. The deer and Alan are similar in the fact that they both were stuck in their situation and couldn't really find a way out. The deer was ironic because 2 boys came up to it just to free its legs to continue its suffering. Alan’s was ironic in the way that it was all his fault he got burned a second time, so if had been more careful with packing the gunpowder, the situation could have been