As Naomi Lewis states false myth in prose or verse is not a harmless matter. It has almost caused the total genocide of the wolf, the most misjudged of all animals and in ways to dreadful to set out. As Naomi states between ourselves and animals, the captives, the toilers and even our closest pets there is an invisible breach which we cannot cross but which poems can sometimes leap over.
As Naomi states most poems while attempting to catch the spirit of the creature are from the human point of view as in Shelley's haunting aziola James Stevens light footed goats. Namely holds that one of the greatest animal poems which has ever been written is William Blake’s “Tyger. ” Naomi holds that Thomas Hardy possessed a rare understanding of animals and birds and that Edward Thomas and understanding of wild flowers plants and leaves. She holds that John Clare held in understanding and knowledge of hedgerows, flowers, grasses, small animals and insects above any other poet who possessed his quality in language. She points out that the wildflowers on Titania’s bank or in Lycidas point in life the classed as weeds and thus destroyed by man's herbicides. She points out, however, that they have luckily survived in poetry.
Naomi states that while the number of free great animals dwindles nearer to nought and the green earth goes millions more human are added to the earth.
Naomi had a fastidious lifelong concern for animals, their exploitation and their welfare which was theme of her anthologies, her poetry, her writing and her translations of Hans Christian Andersen which captured the nuances of his storytelling voice. Naomi dedicated her life to her love for animals and there was no aspect of animal exploitation of which she was unaware. She stated “Animals first last and always. They are the most cruelly treated creatures on earth.” Once looking up at the hills in the town covered with early manor houses she stated, “Think, every stick and stone carted up there by those poor horses!”