A Study of Hunting in the Select Poems of Galway Kinnell

Abstract

This paper studies Kinnell’s love for animals and birds.  He is against the violent act of hunting.  Kinnell is mainly concerned with the world and its living beings.  To realize the sufferings of animals,  Kinnell demonstrates animals' pain by transforming humans into animals.  The poem “The Bear,"  “The Porcupine,”  and “To Christ Our Lord”  describes the violent act of human by hunting these innocent creatures.  Thus,  in his poems,  Kinnell conveys the message of love for animals and birds.