<P> The Animals in That Country is a 1968 poetry collection written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> "</Td> <Td> In that country the animals <P> have the faces of people: </P> <P> the ceremonial </P> <P> cats possessing the streets </P> <P> the fox runs to the creek </P> <P> politely to earth, the huntsmen </P> <P> standing around him, fixed </P> <P> in their tapestry of manners </P> <P> the bull, embroidered </P> <P> with blood and given </P> <P> an elegant death, trumpets, his name </P> <P> stamped on him, heraldic brand </P> <P> because </P> <P> (when he rolled on the sand, sword in his heart, the teeth in his blue mouth were human) </P> <P> he is really a man </P> <P> even the wolves, holding resonant </P> <P> conversations in their </P> <P> forests thickened with legend . </P> <P> </P> In this country the animals have the faces of animals . <P> </P> Their eyes flash once in car headlights and are gone . <P> </P> Their deaths are not elegant . <P> </P> They have the faces of no - one . </Td> <Td>" </Td> </Tr> </Table>

Summary of the poem animals in that country