Violence In Martha Kinkade's 'Miscarriage'

Violence In A Language

The effect language has in the way it is said and presented is incredible. Although most people today are against violence they are unaware of how much they use it in their daily speech. The slight use of violence in people’s speech is where others learn their abusive behavior. It is from hearing the repeated use of this type of speech that begins to teach people that violence is acceptable. In “Winter’s Light” by Martha Kinkade, she writes poetry of past experiences of her life. Some of these experiences are violent, but by using more calm adjectives and verbs to describe the tragic events. She makes the actions sound less violent, but still is given the same effect. Through the examples of Kinkade’s poems, I will show that violent words
Through a difficult hardship with her father the family goes through a traumatizing event as they watch their sister/daughter have a miscarriage. As Kinkade gives a saddened explanation as to what happens to her sister “Without tears, I watched, as an ice cream bucket sloshed purple-red clots fished from the toilet and carried out of our lives with the quickness of a breath” (Kinkade19) .The violent scene can be pictured as to what has happened, as the sister loses the baby in just as a quickness of a breath. Hardman explains “Language is the instrument with which we form thought and feeling, mood, aspiration, will and act, the instrument by whose means we influence and are influenced, the ultimate and deepest foundation of human society.’ It is through the language which we understood how Kinkade felt and what she saw that gives a clear image on what is going on and how the family felt. It was a comparison of something positive like an ice cream bucket which is nonviolent but slosh of purple-red slots coming down which is