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Mad Dog

Text of Poem

Like a great yellow dog, the sun
laps up the water in the creeks,
and his hot panting breath curls the corn
and sears the pasture brown.

He runs wild through the dry summer
as if no master could whistle him back
or drive him to cover
in a kennel of clouds.

First Line
Like a great yellow dog, the sun
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1937
Original Citation
Country Men (1937) viii.
Complete Poems
77
Hearst Collections
Word Count
52
Poetic Form
open
Observations
The whole poem functions around a metaphor - the sun as a mad dog
Themes