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Woodchucks Maxine Kumin Analysis

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In the eyes of the Lord everyone is created equally, but in recent years God’s creatures are not being treated with the respect they deserve. This inequality has been a cause of many wars through history and is no different today. In the poem, “Woodchucks” by Maxine Kumin, the woodchucks represent an oppressed group of people that are slaughtered for their appearances and the speaker represents the evil side that people posses.
When trying to understand Maxine Kumin’s poem, it is best to know her childhood. Maxine grew up as a Jew and it is clearly shown in her work, “Writers are all secret Jews,” declared poet and writer Maxine Kumin in a Massachusetts Review interview in 1975, two years after receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: Poems
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