poem “The Dolphins”?

Here Duffy is not really trying to prove herself an animal lover. Her sole
purpose is to protest against human cruelty towards animals and nature at

The Dolphins by Caroll Ann du…

large. That is why she presents the dolphin who are confined to a pool with
restricted movements to depict how we humans are treating other animals
badly for our own entertainment or monetary purpose. She tries to make the
readers feel bad for the dolphins and make us understand that this kind of
actions from man may eventually lead to a destruction of nature and its
ecosystem. That isn’t going to be good for us at all. In short, the poet just
wants us to feel for the creatures and let them live in their natural habitat.
Explain the line “There is a constant flowing guilt” from Carol Ann Duffy’s
poem “The Dolphins”.

In the context of the poem where a dolphin speaks of its deplorable condition,
it speaks of its feeling. The dolphin constantly feels guilty as it is confined to a
pool. Most probably, the man who is there to regulate the dolphins’ movement
in the pool as a part of performing tricks to entertain people makes them feel
guilty if they do something wrong or can’t perform well. Again, maybe the
dolphin feels guilty as it feels it has not been clever enough to escape and
have now been caught by humans and kept here in such restricted space.

However, the expression ‘a constant flowing guilt’ also suggests the poet’s
feeling here. Duffy here upholds herself as an animal-lover and feels guilty
that we, the humans are treating animals badly that we shouldn’t do anyway.

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