Every day there are a countless amount of cows killed every single day, and you will hear the violent description of how this is portrayed. In The Cow, Andrew Hudgins creates a very beautiful yet gruesome way of describing the actions taken in the process of killing a cow for the use of its meat and other parts. The two themes of just very disturbing but very elegant thoughts come into play as you read this poem.
The poem begins with describing how the man feels toward the cow, “I love the red cow,” which expresses that the man does indeed have feels for the cow in a very appreciative way for what it goes through just so we can sacrifice the cow for our needs. The cow is said to be “gentle when pulling my Cherry-red cart,” which is actually …show more content…
The poem is written in a second person view to give his/hers thought on the situation and describe what they do to the cows. “And pull out her insides to throw to the dogs, just as we do when we slaughter the hogs.” This sentence in the poem creates the thought that the people who are doing this are most likely factory workers whose job is to slaughter animals and get whatever they can from the animals before disposing of the remains. “We’ve now owned six cows that I can remember.” This goes to show that the person does remember all or some of the cows that they get and kill, so it does show that they do actually remember at least some of the cows so they aren’t complete numb to the feelings and the pain that the cows went …show more content…
“As a last, grateful tribute, so humble we stutter,” It creates more of a sad tone in the poem now just describing the people paying tribute to the cows sacrifice to us to create the meat that we eat every day and that gets shipped to store just for us to eat. “We offer up thanks, with a reverent mutter-” it creates an image of people paying their respects and thanking the cow for the price he paid just for us to eat and survive, either that or it depicts an image of the people praying and thanking god for the food put on their table. “Then slather her chops with her own creamy butter.” This creates an image showing that they slather the meat with butter from the cow’s milk and it creates kind of a morbid feeling to the
The poem begins with describing how the man feels toward the cow, “I love the red cow,” which expresses that the man does indeed have feels for the cow in a very appreciative way for what it goes through just so we can sacrifice the cow for our needs. The cow is said to be “gentle when pulling my Cherry-red cart,” which is actually …show more content…
The poem is written in a second person view to give his/hers thought on the situation and describe what they do to the cows. “And pull out her insides to throw to the dogs, just as we do when we slaughter the hogs.” This sentence in the poem creates the thought that the people who are doing this are most likely factory workers whose job is to slaughter animals and get whatever they can from the animals before disposing of the remains. “We’ve now owned six cows that I can remember.” This goes to show that the person does remember all or some of the cows that they get and kill, so it does show that they do actually remember at least some of the cows so they aren’t complete numb to the feelings and the pain that the cows went …show more content…
“As a last, grateful tribute, so humble we stutter,” It creates more of a sad tone in the poem now just describing the people paying tribute to the cows sacrifice to us to create the meat that we eat every day and that gets shipped to store just for us to eat. “We offer up thanks, with a reverent mutter-” it creates an image of people paying their respects and thanking the cow for the price he paid just for us to eat and survive, either that or it depicts an image of the people praying and thanking god for the food put on their table. “Then slather her chops with her own creamy butter.” This creates an image showing that they slather the meat with butter from the cow’s milk and it creates kind of a morbid feeling to the