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Reg. No. 165 14384007

THE BAT
THEODORE ROETHKE

THEODORE ROETHKE
Theodore Roethke was born in
Michigan,U.S. In 1957 he published a
a collection of works that included 43
new poems titled Words for the wind,
for which he was awarded many titles.
The poem, The Bat is taken from The
Collected Poem published in 1964.

By day the bat is cousin to

the
mouse

He likes the attic of an

ageing house

His fingers make a hat about his

head
His pulse beat is so slow we think
him dead.
He loops in crazy figures half the
night
Among the trees that face the corner

light

But when he brushes

up against a screen
We are afraid of what
our eyes have seen

For something is
amiss or out of place
When mice with
wings can wear a
human face

MEANING OF THE
DIFFICULT WORDS

Attic

Loop
curve

or

Amiss

- Space or room inside the

roof of a building.
- A shape produced by a
that bends round.
- Not quite as it should be
wrong

RHYMING WORDS
Mouse
Head
Night
Screen
Place

House
Dead
Light
Seen
Face

VISUAL IMAGES
The attic of an ageing house
His fingers make a hat about
his head
He loops in crazy figures half
the night.

REFERENCES
COURSE BOOK OF STD. 8
SOURCE BOOK
GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS