Shooting+Rats+at+the+Bibb+County+Dump,+David+Bottoms

In //Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, // the form of the poem is free verse because this poem has no rhyme scheme. This poem has three stanzas with fourteen lines. There is sound in this story but not that much. There is one similie in this story and says,"Shot in the head, they jump only once, lie still like dead beer cans." There is also a hyperbole that exagerated the eyes of the rats when they point the light at them. The imagery of this poem describe drunks going to a dump and just shooting rats for no reason. I can also imagine hearing the shoots that the drunks shoot at the rats. The mood in this story is calm and drunk because the people are drunk and to me they seem calm just shooting rats. For the rats, I think it is panic and danger because they do not want to die and they hate light. The meaning of this poems is that if your drunk you do really stupid things. I thought of this poem as a entertaining one because it was a good poem to read that i really liked and enjoyed.  ~ulloa9 Form: With the stanzas the first stanza has four lines, the second has seven, and the third has three.

Sound: There isn't a regular meter in this poem. ~taisa15

I believe that the meaning of this poem is that under different or unfamiliar circumstances, that you have a different view of things. For example, when they are drunk, they don't value the life of a rat as they usually would. True, it is just a rat, but I think the author was using the rat as a metaphor for something else.
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****__Imagery__** There was a lot of imagery in this poem. Mainly it was sight imagery describing the landscape of the dump. For example: mounds of rubbish, rusty oil drums, cardboard boxes scattered across the mounds, etc. I think it really helped you envision the dump they were at. ~PW