Transcript The Bull Calf By Irving Layton

Amir Mojibian
Otto Ling
Susan Yu
Irving Layton
 Romanian-born Canadian Poet
 Born on March 12, 1912.
Died on January 4, 2006. (aged 93)
 He was famous for his "tell it like it is" style.
 Governor-General's Award, Petrarch Award for Poetry.
The Bull Calf
 The poem “The Bull Calf” by Irving Layton thoroughly
describes a bull calf getting killed at its young age.
 In the poem, Layton used metaphor to compare the
slain bull calf and the deposed Richard II of England.
The Bull Calf
 “He still impressed with his pride” (Line 3)
 “I thought of the deposed Richard II.” (Line 9)
 “Settled, the bull calf lay as if asleep,
one foreleg over the other,
bereft of pride and so beautiful now” (Line 32-34)