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The Poem 'Walter De La Mare Tells His Listeners About Jack And Jill'
In the poem “Walter De La Mare, Tells His Listeners about Jack and Jill”, by Louis Untermeyer is about Jill getting raped. Jack and Jill went up the hill. “Up to the moonlit crest they went; and though, not a word would they say” these lines represent the quietness and stillness up at the hill. It was only them two there alone on that hill. Jill did not know Jack’s real intentions. Something bad was going to happen to Jill and maybe without her consent. “Up to the top of the haunted turf”. Haunted, creeping these words only describes something negative was about to happen but then when it all died down, it happened. Jill was getting raped. “In the first green weeks of May”, represents their innocence and youth. It all talks about the season
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