Hounds

[Erthona]

I am unsure who the N is in this. Is the N thinking of himself as a dog?

The description does not always seem to connect to the story or seems to not line up with what the N has previously said.

"felt a surging terror
of the oak thicket and brush as he guided me.
An impulse to shout a warning to the birds there
that a dog was coming to crown himself in the snow
of their feathers, and that he was not mine."

I think you are assuming that the reader knows what you know and so you are leaving out valuable information.

Is the "hound" a metaphor for a person? Here the "hound" appears to be other than the N, yet at the end the hound appears to be the N.

"In those slavering jaws, making promises to the next man, that I’d love him
if he hurt me the least."

In the end this poems leaves me confused and trying way to hard to find what is trying to be said.

best,

dale