He describes the thoughts of a learned pig forced to retire from his intellectual pursuits to be fattened for slaughter .
Thomas Hood 's poem The Lament of Toby , The Learned Pig also uses the Bacon pun , adding another on the poet James Hogg .
Thomas Hood describes the thoughts of a learned pig forced to retire from Thomas Hood 's intellectual pursuits to be fattened for slaughter .
Thomas Hood 's poem The Lament of Toby , The Learned Pig also uses the Bacon pun , adding another on the poet James Hogg .