Writing Resources
Desire to Kill In the poem Woodchucks written by Maxine Kumin is about a woman who happens to have a killing aggression toward a creature that happens to be eating out of her garden At first she tries to kill the woodchucks the most humane way possible She tries to poison them from underground but does not work as the woodchucks still continue to eat out of her garden of vegetables She progressively grew more mad and decides to shoot the animals herself The reason as to why she wanted the woodchucks dead was because they were feasting out of her own garden as if the woodchucks were the ones who planted that garden Her actions are so violent that she eventually becomes obsessed with killing and has the desire to exterminate so much that she ties it from Nazi way When she notices that there have been woodchucks eating from her garden she tried to get rid of them the most peaceful way possible She tries to kill the woodchucks from underground with poisonous gases She wanted to avoid seeing all the creature being killed in front of her own eyes Eventually as she sees that the gassing has not worked and the garden has been eaten a lot more than before she grows mad and decides to kill the woodchucks then and there
