Can you help me do an evaluation of this poem?

Question

Premarin
These fillies are innocent

So are these colts

But they will never have a chance

They were born just to die

They think they are useless

Just a by-product of this

There only purpose is to feed dogs

They were born just to die


Why don’t we use alternatives?

Because we don’t know about them

We aren’t supposed too

They were born just to die


We can stop this

We can save these innocent foals

And there mothers

Because they were born just to die

Sorry about the spacing
its a bit wierd
i was having issues with the computer

lets try it again so you can read it better

Premarin
These fillies are innocent
So are these colts
But they will never have a chance
They were born just to die

They think they are useless
Just a by-product of this
There only purpose is to feed dogs
They were born just to die

Why don’t we use alternatives?
Because we don’t know about them
We aren’t supposed too
They were born just to die

We can stop this
We can save these innocent foals
And there mothers
Because they were born just to die

OH YA!
I should probably tell you what premarin is

Premarin is a medicine that is made from pregnant mares urine. The mares are made pregnant over and over. Once the foals are born, they are sent to a slaughterhouse
And the mares are made pregnant again
Again and again untill they die

I cant change it im doing an evaluation
I didnt make this poem

Well im trying to do a personal evaluation
So like what does it mean to you?
Im trying to figure that our 4 myself

Answer 1

I love it!

All I would change is the last line to:

"Were they just born to die?"

Excellent poem, overall.

Answer 2

It seems to me that this poem is about more than just Premarin, of colts and fillies and mares. I think it speaks volumes about the injustices placed upon innocent animals because of humans' want for comfort. Women have gone through menopause for hundreds of years, and they have been able to deal with it. Now, with the rising 'Give me' generation, the generation that hasn't had to deal with much in the way of survival, people are more and more unwilling to go through something unpleasant, even if it exactly what nature wants. So medical companies have found ways to change nature, to do things the way that they aren't meant to be done. Mares aren't made to be continually pregnant, then not know their babies. They have the same feelings that human mothers do toward their offspring, and it isn't right to deny a mother her basic instinct of caring for her children. Now humans are going against nature, both in humans and animals, and all because they don't want to go through something unpleasant.

Life is sacred. Nobody who has a real heart can watch a foal grow into a horse and not realize that the life they hold is more than just a beating heart and a brain. The fact that thousands of mares are forced to suffer, and the life snuffed out of their offspring, is something that the medical companies don't want us to see, because then they would lose profit. And that's what it's all about, sadly. Comfort and profit.

The fact is, having them 'born just to die' is morally wrong. Making mares suffer is morally wrong. Not trying to find better alternatives is morally wrong. Not informing people of the processes behind their comfort is morally wrong. So the logical conclusion is that Premarin is morally wrong.

The repeating of the statement 'They were born just to die' at the end of each stanza is a common thing in poetry, but it works well in getting the message of the author across. In this case, the author adds a bit of knowledge about Premarin mares and foals in each stanza, then repeats that statement to add a new perspective and depth to it. The ryming pattern of the stanzas is off, or rather, nonexistant. This leaves the reader to rely more upon the beat, and more focus can be added to the statements that need it.

Hope this helped some. I found the poem very insightful and thought provocing.

Answer 3

My gist is that fillies and foals are innocent and crying out to be saved from mankind who want to kill them for experiments.Unless there is an underlying meaning?

Answer 4

It's too weird for me sorry...the spacing really made it hard for me to understand