Woodchucks And Aunt Jennifer's Tigers: A Literary Analysis

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“Woodchucks” by Adrienne Rich, and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Maxine Kumin, are both poems with a heavy focus on animals. “Woodchucks” describe its selected animal as a pest, mentioning how they steal their food and invade their property. However, in “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” tigers are portrayed as noble, brave, and majestic. The protagonist of each story goes through a different journey. In Rich’s story, the homeowner first seems fairly innocent, and is shown to simply find the woodchucks annoying. The thoughts that the woodchucks are a burden seems to be a popular opinion throughout her family. As the end of the poem nears, the woodchucks become the victim of her killing spree. The protagonist ends up becoming an antagonist because of how