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Description: | Written in April 1789, the theme of this poem is the hare, Burns' 'poor wanderer of the wood and field', which, alas, has been shot.
Burns wrote to Mrs Dunlop on 21 April 1789: '(while) sowing in the fields, I heard a shot, and presently a poor little hare limped by me, apparently very much hurt. (...) this set my humanity in tears...'.
In the opening quatrain, the poet furnishes the perpetrator of this heinous act with the epithet 2inhuman man!'. The Poet goes on to wish numerous misfortunes on the fellow. Then there is a turn - Burns' sensibilities now switch to the hare, the little 'mangled wretch' who seeks his 'dying bed' all the while pressing 'The cold earth with thy bloody bosom'. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1789-01-01 - 1789-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Poem by Robert Burns: 'On Seeing a Wound | Go to resource |
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