An Analysis of the Poem

2. A seven year old herd boy, ragged happy and vacant, sits alone playing the stonegame, his back to the five thin healthy head grazing. Across the valley the distant warts of huts squat on the wrist of the hill.

3. A seven year old herd boy, ragged happy and vacant, sits alone playing the stonegame, his back to the five thin healthy head grazing. Across the valley the distant warts of huts squat on the wrist of the hill. Long believed extinct there was no one but the walleyed stampeding clot of cattle to see the two dozen feet of dusty leather wingspread, hear the wet crush of long toothed jaws closing, the snap of vertebrae, and nothing, nothing at all the flight away with the broken rabbit boy one limb slow waving.

4. PTERANODON DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE

5. PTERANODON “ ptera-”: Gk for “wing” “ -odon”: Gk for “animal with teeth” Subspecies of the Pterodactyl – flying lizard

6. A seven year old herd boy, ragged happy and vacant, sits alone playing the stonegame, his back to the five thin healthy head grazing. tattered clothing threadbare shabby OXYMORON unoccupied empty, blank expressionless unresponsive Collective noun Head of cattle

7. Across the valley the distant warts of huts squat on the wrist of the hill. METAPHOR? PERSONIFICATION? Herd boy’s isolation and vulnerability is highlighted “ sits alone playing the stonegame”

8. Long believed extinct there was no one but the walleyed stampeding clot of cattle to see the two dozen feet of dusty leather wingspread, Metaphor – new collective noun

9. hear the wet crush of long toothed jaws closing, the snap of vertebrae, and nothing, nothing at all the flight away with the broken rabbit boy one limb slow waving. What is the effect of this repetition? Why is there this grammar error?