Eve Names the Animals by Susan Donnelly is about the biblical story of Adam and Eve. It is from a feminine perspective about how Eve does not agree with Adam on the names of the animals. She does not understand why he is naming the animals what he is and she believes that she can come up with better names than he can. Then she starts to name the animals and she thinks that she named them for particular reasons and that man (Adam) just gave them names that did not mean anything to them at all. After she gave the name lion to the lion she started naming all of the animals because she believes that she did it because she got to know them. She gave them the names for a reason.
Eve claims that Adam named the animals according to their size. The end of the poem was interesting because the last line is "I liked change" (1253). It is interesting how she said "I liked" instead of "I like". Eve made all of these changes and it makes me wonder if she regrets it or if the last line means anything at all.
This poem had a story behind it. It was more for the women rather than the men becuase it kind of spoke of the "man" as uncaring and slow and the "woman" as analytical and smart.
Work Cited
Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. "Eve Names the Animals." The Norton Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2010. 1252-53. Print.
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