Butcher Shop - Charles Simic
Summary
Butcher Shop is a poem composed by Charles Simic. It is about the cruel human act of killing innocent animals for food. A butcher shop is a place where animals are killed and their meat is sold.
The speaker walking at late night sees a butcher shop. There is a single light. The poet describes the butcher shop as much like a prison where great sins of killing and sacrificing innocent, weak and helpless animals is done. The butcher man uses an apron, sharp knives, a wooden block and a light.
The apron has marks of blood all over it which appear like the map. It shows many innocent animals have been slaughtered in that shop. Sharp shining knives have been used to kill animals. The wooden block is used to cut the animal's meat and bones.
The poet claims to have heard the voice of those innocent animals which were killed in the shop. All these things help to arise scary images of the place. The poet seems to speak for the rights of animals.
Some powerful images the poet has created in the poem are: the image of a blood apron, glistening knives, a wooden butcher's block, single light in the shop, the wailing of the voices, etc.
Q - Killing animals for food is not good. Argue in its favour or against.
From - English for The New Millennium.
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