Reflection #6 :The Panther

In the poem "The panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke, is represented a metaphor of confinement . The poem star with this panther who in his eye vision only see bars ,"His vision, from constantly passing bars...", it can be determined that the panther is inside a caged. The panther grow impatiently inside it, like when we see lion in a zoo that they are wandering around in circle in their caged, "As he pace in cramped circle, over and over,..". At the end the panther reached with fury the first thing he saw when the bars lift, "...,arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone." This poem could represent how animals feel in imprisonment or how some men feel when they are confined and when they are free some of them commit crime again like the panther when the bars lift up.