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Poem - 1 The Squirrel - Mildred Bowers Armstrong

The poem describes a squirrel that the poet observes in nature. The squirrel is given human characteristics as the poet personifies it. The first stanza provides a physical description of the squirrel, noting its gray fur with darker stripes and bushy tail. It is seen sitting straight while eating nuts. The poet finds the squirrel's swift and joyful movements entertaining, though it runs away shyly when the poet gets too close. The poem reflects on how ordinary elements of nature like the squirrel can be fascinating and uses imagination to bring a cheerful and expressive tone.

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Poem - 1 The Squirrel - Mildred Bowers Armstrong

The poem describes a squirrel that the poet observes in nature. The squirrel is given human characteristics as the poet personifies it. The first stanza provides a physical description of the squirrel, noting its gray fur with darker stripes and bushy tail. It is seen sitting straight while eating nuts. The poet finds the squirrel's swift and joyful movements entertaining, though it runs away shyly when the poet gets too close. The poem reflects on how ordinary elements of nature like the squirrel can be fascinating and uses imagination to bring a cheerful and expressive tone.

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Poem - 1

The Squirrel

- Mildred Bowers Armstrong

Summary

Introduction

Mildred Bowers Armstrong was born on November 11, 1930. She was a children's book
author in the 1950's. One of her works was entitled "Favorite Fairy Tales" which was a
series of books for children. She was awarded National Medal of Science (1990), IEEE
Founders Medal (2004) for her naturalistic writing. She died on January 17, 2015.

About the poem

The poem is a reflection of the poet`s desire to compose poetry on the most ordinary
elements that we come across in our daily lives. He has personified the squirrel with
human characteristics and thereby making the poem very descriptive.

Poet Description Of Squirrel

The first stanza begins with the physical description of the squirrel. The poet in her
imagination sees it as if it's wearing "an overcoat of gray," for it has gray fur all over its
body with darker stripes. Its tail rolls about, twisting like a question mark. The poet also
describes the food that the squirrel is fond of, it enjoy eating nuts and it usually sits straight
while eating.

She is attracted by its swift and joyful movements and there is a hide and seek game going
on between her and the squirrel. Squirrel is a fast paced animal that when the moment poet
gets too close to play around it, the squirrel gets immensely shy and runs away in the other
direction. She says the squirrels run from one place to another with great energy.

Conclusion

Thus poet feels, our nature can be very fascinating, and so can be the creatures of nature.
The atmosphere of the poem is cheerful and expressive. The imagination used by the poet
in his writing bear’s resemblance to the attitude of a child.

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