I think the concept presented here about the 'unseeable animal' is something that could not exist any more today. In the 60s and 70s the ecology and environmental movement was beginning, and I think today it is coming to an end. There are all sorts of activist movements for going green and saving the planet, but I feel like it has become such a mute point and has been so over emphasized that today's society has become really good at tuning it out.
When it was written this poem may have been received well and caused a lot of thought, but today may be just seen as another poem stemming from a child's naive thought. With all the conquer and destruction of our natural resources (the rain forest for example), many informed Americans may think the existence of this animal to be a nice thought but impractical to actually discover.
I do enjoy the quote by Berry's daughter in the beginning. It represents the naivete of a child while echoing the need for hope when our planet is being demolished by mankind's own greed and blindness to the stress it is experiencing. Her use of "Hope" reinforces this so that the poem may be applicable for generations to come, no matter how much people try to ignore the environmental movements.
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