5-“To see which one of them was being torched or pierced through the side with a long spear”This phrase struck me by the way he describes it as "they are damaging the cows", but until that part we do not know if they are damaging them or not .The speaker might be imagining it or maybe not.it strike me the way it is described as it is type is sadistic. Although all that was what he supposed because of what he heard.
7-The speaker has a discomfort that was that he did not know what was happening to the cows (the cows did not stop producing sound). He at the beginning thinks that they were hurting the cows and that the noises implied their suffering. When he decides to go to see what was happening he realizes that everything is fine and that the cows were producing the normal sound that the cows make
11-In the poem one of the main ideas may be the extraordinary of the ordinary. The speaker presents with elegance and intelligence this quote “how mysterious, how patient and dumbfounded.” The cows of the poem are not similar to cows that everyone knows : lonely, still, silent, boring. These are really different cows. We find in the poem a strange presence in these boring animals. These cows make a strange, mysterious sound, which can come from the darkness of the belly. That darkness can express the idea of a mysterious place in which nothing can be seen. Everything is dark
