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Judith Beveridge's Fox In A Tree Stump
Judith Beveridge is known for using a number of themes in her poems that hold strong meaning and relate to today’s society in some way such as the value of life and the inequality between men and women. She also has some reoccurring themes she likes to use such as animals and the personification of objects and animals.
In her poem, Fox in a Tree Stump, the central theme dictated is man’s cruelty to animals. She depicts this theme with harsh imagery surrounding the young girl and the fox. One example of this is when she is unwillingly forced by her uncle to lure out the fox and take the life of it herself. She ends up killing it and having to cremate it.
This poem manages to clarify the value of life by showing us how easily the most dominant
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