Dog by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Dog” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti caught my attention out of all the assigned poems because to me, it seemed like it was very easy to comprehend. The line, “The dog trots freely in the street” is repeated several times throughout this poem. This gives the reader the feeling that a dog has its own free will to do anything that it may want to do. At the beginning of the poem, the dog is describing what it sees around him: “And the things he sees / Are his reality” (5-6). By describing what all he sees around himself, it makes the reader get a feeling that the dog is curious and likes sightseeing while he is around town. Since he is able to trot freely in the streets, he is a wild dog that “will not be muzzled” and is free (43). I’m sure that this poem has some other deeper meaning but I really enjoyed from a literal view point.