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    The poem describes the behavior of bats. It notes that bats are similar to mice during the day, and like to reside in the attic of old houses. At night, the bat flies in crazy patterns near trees lit by streetlights. While in flight, their fingers form a hat around their heads, and their pulse is so slow they appear dead. The poem creates an unsettling feeling, as bats resemble humans when seen up close on screens, highlighting how unfamiliar night creatures can seem.

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    The poem describes the behavior of bats. It notes that bats are similar to mice during the day, and like to reside in the attic of old houses. At night, the bat flies in crazy patterns near trees lit by streetlights. While in flight, their fingers form a hat around their heads, and their pulse is so slow they appear dead. The poem creates an unsettling feeling, as bats resemble humans when seen up close on screens, highlighting how unfamiliar night creatures can seem.

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    Poem Analysis The Bat

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    Lemonade Blossom Madeleine
    The poem describes the behavior of bats. It notes that bats are similar to mice during the day, and like to reside in the attic of old houses. At night, the bat flies in crazy patterns near trees lit by streetlights. While in flight, their fingers form a hat around their heads, and their pulse is so slow they appear dead. The poem creates an unsettling feeling, as bats resemble humans when seen up close on screens, highlighting how unfamiliar night creatures can seem.

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    The Bat

    By Theodore Roethke

    By day bat is cousin to the mouse

    He likes the attic of an aging 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 a miss or out of place

    When mice with wings can wear a human face


    Binary Exposition

     There is not a binary exposition in this poem

    New Criticism approach

    Diction : The writer, Theodore Roethke, describes the bat as a human not
    an animal. So, he uses the pronoun “He” to call the bad.

    “By day bat is cousin to the mouse”

    “He likes the attic of an aging house”

    Structuralism approach

    1. Genre : Report

    2. Theme : The night animal

    3. Plot : The bat’s face is almost similar with the mouse. It likes

    the dark place such as the attic in the aging house. It likes

    to fly in the midnight among the trees. Most people are

    afraid of it’s appearance.

    4. Character : The bat

    a. likes the attic of an aging house

    b. its fingers make a hat about its head


    c. its pulse beat is so slow we think its dead
    d. it loops in crazy figures half the night
    e. Among the trees that face the corner light
    5. Setting of place :

    - the attic of an aging house

    - Among the trees that face the corner light

    Setting of time :

    - half the night

    6. Point of view : the third person point of view

    By day bat is cousin to the mouse


    He likes the attic of an aging house
    His fingers make a hat about his head

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