“The Panther” by Rainer Maria Rilke is about a panther, whose grown weary because he’s imprisoned and is performs a ritual dance around a great desire he can’t get a grab of hold of, but then he focuses and starts to get it, but then loses it. In the beginning, “His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary… it seems to him there are a thousand bars…”. The panther who has been imprisoned, is worn out and can’t focus. It argues that there is no life or meaning to life behind these bars. An individual can’t see when it is being held in a prison. No hope, life or anything, but just a blurred vision. Since he’s, “grown so weary that is cannot hold anything else,” he can’t do anything anymore because he’s tired of every little