🦁 How to Tell Wild Animals

About the Poem

📖 Poem Notes

Carolyn Wells — Humorous poem listing ways to identify dangerous animals by their attacks on you! The Bengal Tiger will embrace you (and you'll die); the leopard will leap on you; the bear will hug you to death. Dark humour — ironic descriptions. The poem mocks field guides with absurd identification methods.

🔑 Key Points

  • Learn the central theme and message for exam
  • Note any literary devices: metaphor, personification, irony, symbolism
  • The poem is from the First Flight textbook