Mothúcháin

• Tá frustrachas, éadóchas, agus brón sa dán seo. Tá atmaisféar brónach, éadóchasach ann.
  • Frustration, despair and sadness in this poem. There is a sad, hopeless atmosphere.

• Tá cuimhní sona aige ar a shaol sin.
  • He has happy memories of his life then.

• Tá an bród athchurtha le féin trua sa dara leath.
  • The pride is replaced with self-pity in the second half.

• Tuigeann an t-ainmhí nach dtiocfaidh deireadh leis an saol seo, leis an bhfulaingt seo, go deo.

  • The animal knows that there an end will never come to this life, to this suffering.

• Tagann na céadta duine ag féachaint air gach lá ach ní bheidh sé saor go deo.

  • Hundreds of people come to watch him every day but he will never be free.