Question

What is the subgenre of this poem?

satire

pastoral

myth

allegory

Answer 1

Peasant
by Alfred Kreymborg (excerpt)

It's the mixture of peasantry
makes him so slow.
He waggles his head
before he speaks,
like a cow
before she crops.
He bends to the habit
of dragging his feet
up under him,
like a measuring-worm:
some of his forefathers,
stooped over books,
ruled short straight lines
under two rows of figures
to keep their thin savings
from sifting to the floor.
Should you strike him
with a question,
he will blink twice or thrice
and roll his head about,
like an owl
in the pin-wingspans
of a dawn he cannot see.

Answer 2

@OtherWorldly

Answer 3

do u want ur last question answered?

Answer 4

i dont understand this that well so i am not sure but i am guessing pastoral

Answer 5

nvm i mean satire

Answer 6

Try not to give direct answers please. We have to guide them to the answers.
Thanks. :)

Answer 7

^^

Answer 8

fist off i ask questions to get answers for the reason the i don't know the answer