The speaker begins with a dark but honorable view over the future events that will unfold. Although the audience may have no true understanding of the speaker’s current situation, it can be easily inferred that the speaker may be undergoing some sort of battle that the unfortunate outcome of which is death. The speaker and his allies are perhaps losing this battle seeing as they are being “hunted and penned” by their enemies as if they were prey. Furthermore, it is shown that the speaker and his “accursed” allies are “outnumbered” compared to their adversaries.” The enemy is even compared to “mad and hungry dogs” rather than human beings with a sense of morality. The enemy also “mocks” the speaker and his allies which is meant to exclude the