In The Cat's Song, Marge Piercy portrays the theme of the strong bond between cats and humans. Piercy concludes that cats and humans share an inherent darkness that connects them in a special way that is unlike any other animal to human companionship. By comparing cats and humans, Piercy answers why humans and cats love each other so much by emphasizing the differences and similarities that binds us together.
Marge Pierce discusses cat and human differences through the use of figurative language, imagery, and rhetorical questions to point out how humans feel the need to be superior to other humans by making the cat seem haughty. For instance the cat asks the reader, who is the theoretical owner of the cat, rhetorical questions like can …show more content…
Alternatively, Piercy utilizes imagery to further prove her ideas. The cat tells the reader that it will teach you to read the tabloid of scents (6). The imagery in the line is that the tabloid of scents is supposed to let the reader really see the vast array of scents there are for cats to sense. also, the reader I meant to see that the cat is now taking a teaching stance, were the cat is teaching the owner what to do because the owner is incompetent in that area. Now, humans cannot smell that much like cats do, but in the end do they need to? In such a modern society, the cat knows that for them they need a strong sense to catch prey and communicate with other animals, but we humans do just fine without it. Repeatedly, the cat makes another comment saying that the it will teach the owner how teach you to be still as an egg (21) or to slip like the ghost of wind(22). Once more, Piercy brings up an unnecessary factor that the cat can do to humans cannot do, but in the end humans don’t have to. By using figurative language such as similes to compare to rule through to an even reader element, adds to the greatness and superiority of the cat's ways. The only reason that fact is there, is to
Marge Pierce discusses cat and human differences through the use of figurative language, imagery, and rhetorical questions to point out how humans feel the need to be superior to other humans by making the cat seem haughty. For instance the cat asks the reader, who is the theoretical owner of the cat, rhetorical questions like can …show more content…
Alternatively, Piercy utilizes imagery to further prove her ideas. The cat tells the reader that it will teach you to read the tabloid of scents (6). The imagery in the line is that the tabloid of scents is supposed to let the reader really see the vast array of scents there are for cats to sense. also, the reader I meant to see that the cat is now taking a teaching stance, were the cat is teaching the owner what to do because the owner is incompetent in that area. Now, humans cannot smell that much like cats do, but in the end do they need to? In such a modern society, the cat knows that for them they need a strong sense to catch prey and communicate with other animals, but we humans do just fine without it. Repeatedly, the cat makes another comment saying that the it will teach the owner how teach you to be still as an egg (21) or to slip like the ghost of wind(22). Once more, Piercy brings up an unnecessary factor that the cat can do to humans cannot do, but in the end humans don’t have to. By using figurative language such as similes to compare to rule through to an even reader element, adds to the greatness and superiority of the cat's ways. The only reason that fact is there, is to