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When reading this poem, a story plays in my head. To me this poem shows the need for survival and the selfishness of humans.

The story begins with the first stanza: There is a dying tiger. I pcutre him sprawled out in a desert, trudging along, yearning for a drink, even just a drop of water. The narrator is also very thirsty, but I don't see her as desperate as the tiger. The narrator searches everywhere for something to drink. She finds a small amount of water and holds it in her hand.

The second stanza: The tiger, with its desperate eyes, sees the narrator and sees that she has water.

The thrid stanza: The narrator in this stanza deflects all responsibility for the tiger's death by saying the tiger was too slow. The narrator believes tha she deserves to live becuase she found the water first. Survival of the fittest and human nature are two big themes that play in this poem by Emily Dickinson. 1204082713

"A Dying Tiger-- moaned for Drink--" is a great poem written by Emily Dickinson. She explains in this poem that death is inevitable and no matter what you do to try and stop it, death will still take those that you love. In the poem, the character looked for water that may have saved the Tiger. The eyes of the Tiger told her that she was too late and that it died. The last stanza was the best of the poem: 'Twas not my blame-- who sped too slow-- 'Twas not his blame-- who died While I was reaching him-- But 'twas-- the fact that He was dead-- The stanza tells you almost word for word that time can't change death, even if she had made it in time to give the tiger water the tiger would still have died eventually. The only thing that you are doing by bringing a dying person or animal something that they want is making them comforted before they died. Everything will die sometime or another it is just you who will have to deal with the loss which is the hardest thing to live with.

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I think that this poem was sad but very interesting. In my opinion I think that the tiger in the poem resembled someone that was close to Dickinson maybe a close relative. In the poem the tiger needs water and I think that she was trying to day that she had this person that was dying and needed something to help him. She says that the tiger sees her so I think that she was there when he died. Anyway the tiger needs water so she goes and gets it but on her way back to give it to the tiger it dies. She says in the poem that she doesn't blame the tiger for dying and stuff but she blames her self for not helping the tiger in time. I thought the way that the poem was written was very interesting and I liked the way she used a lot of figurative language. 1205461737