The Panther was an influential poem describing life from the perspective of an animal in a zoo, which focused more on its cage than on humans, one of the first to do so, part of an early counter-movement against anthropomorphic views of animals and nature along with individuals such as Jakob von Uexküll, a writer of perspectives of creatures such as jellyfish and ticks, a man who he corresponded with, and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal who wrote from the perspective of a man who had language become like 'rotten mushrooms' in his mouth.
The Panther was an influential poem describing life from the perspective of an animal in a zoo which focused more on its cage than on humans one of the first to do so part of an early counter-movement against anthropomorphic views of animals and nature along with individuals such as Jakob von Uexküll a writer of perspectives of creatures such as jellyfish and ticks a man who he corresponded with and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal who wrote from the perspective of a man who had language become like 'rotten mushrooms' in his mouth