Animais

A propósito de, poesia...

Que animal está aqui em causa:

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands.
Ringed with the azure world he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls.
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Parece-me um poema muito interessante. Sobretudo, a forma como o animal é sugerido: como um deus - apetece dizer.

Agora, mais um poema.

A lord of the seas
Faster than a bullet
He never sleeps.
Death takes orders from him.

Fear is his vassal
The Ocean his vessel.
His teeth are swords
Ready to tear you apart.

Luís Mendes e Inês Marques

Que animal é este?