A Freudian Reading of Philip Schultz's "The Wandering Wingless".

Abstract-"The Wandering Wingless" is about a dog walker's life in New York City. It seems that the poet is representing his care about the horrors of September 11, the sibling relationship and the intimacy with animals. This paper, first interprets the poem on the basis of Freud's psychoanalytical theory, and then concludes that the output of this poem results from the influences of the death drive on the poet and the castration anxiety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]