The Bull Moose"The Bull Moose" is a poem by one of Canada's greatest poets, Alden Nowlan. It is a finely crafted poem by a very talented poet. It reminds us how far the lives of ordinary men and women have moved away from Nature. This is something that unites all of us who live so much of our lives in buildings and who so rarely experience Nature in its raw form. Nowlan creates powerful layers of imagery and contrasts them in a way that makes us feel how harmful this separation from Nature has been to our minds and souls. His poetry is romantic in the way it tries to remind us how low we have fallen and how empty our idea of ​​progress is. In fact, Nowlan suggests we may be more of a beast than the moose. The moose presents the reader with an image of strength. I think he's looking for a place to die, but you can see he still seems very powerful in the way he comes "staggering" and "stumbling" so powerfully, until he reaches the edge of his world, and the beginning of ours world, to the "fenced pasture". A crowd made up of men, women and children seems to have materialized out of nowhere. These are the representatives of civilized life and are uniformly marked by insensitivity and ignorance in their treatment of elk. People can't seem to understand that moose is not the same kind of animal as their pet livestock, or their pet collie, or the gelding moose they remember seeing. They suffer from a severe form of blindness that fails to recognize the deeper meaning of this moose that has come to them from the "purple mist of the trees" as if it were some kind of mystical being full of ancient truths. The scene quickly develops into a show of obscenity as some men "open his jaws with bottles" and then "pour beer down his throat." The moose's crown of thistles is a symbol that serves to remind us of Christ's unjustified suffering. In this way he makes us see our fellow men in a revolting light as they proceed towards the humiliation and execution of one of the "lords of life".."