The speakers in “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath and “Infant Sorrow” by William Blake express their attitudes towards infancy. They do this through the use of imagery and language in each poem. There is a range of emotions that are expressed by the speakers, who are both providing perspectives of childbirth from the parent’s point of view. The vivid images that are created by these poems reveal the attitudes of the speakers toward infancy.…
The reading is big on details allowing the reader to picture the struggles that were faced, Rember opens up the essay with three descriptive images “A lonely child screams for her mother. A couple bickers in Spanish; the women begins to sob. I sit in silence, trying to drown out the noise.” (Page 142 1st paragraph) the reader is placed in the room with the array of details and is able to picture how it’s like to be inside the welfare office, the inside of the office portrays the struggle of instability that each family is facing. Rember goes on to explain how worn down the office was “The waiting area was filthy, unorganized, and overcrowded. Plastic chairs awaited the welfare-hopefuls, after they took a number” (Page 143 3rd paragraph) the room was worn down much like the people in it, fighting a struggle the is unforgettable, Rember has the images of this room imprinted in his memory as an example of the hardship he dealt with.…
In Deborah Samson’s child and teenage years were rough because she lived in poverty. It didn’t make anything any better when her father left on a expedition at sea and never came back. She was taken from her mother and was in the care of her grandparents. When her grandparents passed away she moved in with a farmer living in Middleborough. She was only ten years old and was expected to work as an indentured…
This poem struck me with its vivid description of the hard life that people during the Depression suffered. This is not just a story of the burial of a child. This is a window into the hardships of a generation of people. The landscape is drawn as a harsh, barren land that chips away at plows. Poverty is blatant from the father having to steal the wood for the grave marker, to the mother sleeping on a corn shuck mat in the shack that they lived in.…
Initially the poem ‘The wholly innocent’ represents the moral brutality within human nature through Dawe portraying the ugliness of humanity. This social issue is shown throughout the poem and is represented with the use of the language technique personal pronoun, the personal ‘I’ is repeated numerous times throughout the poem. Dawe uses the personal pronoun so many times in the poem as a referral of the unborn baby; this is representing the voice of the fetus. The purpose of this poem is to protest against abortion and Dawe uses the voice of the baby as plea of survival. Dawe is challenging us to see how brutal our nature is as humans, and he uses an innocent baby to also gain more sympathy from the audience.…
The poem immediately opens the scene by describing the beginning of a boy’s life and how all around him is material possessions. The first thing that the baby hears when he is born is Bobby Dazzler, one of Australia's famous game shows greeting him “Hello,hello., hello all you lucky people”. The very first thing that the baby hears is not the voice of his mother, nor the voice of his father, but the voice of materialism. This portrays that society has been overly consumed by technology, effectively supported as they degrade the significance of the baby’s parent’s role.…
In the chimney sweeper it talks about how children are neglected because their parents no longer want them. Infant Sorrow talks about the disappointment that the parents have when their child is born and how they no longer want them. In Blake’s archetypes it has the messages of innocence, strength, neglect, and disappointment.…
In both the novel, The House on Mango Street, and the poem “Mother to Son”, the narrators are faced with struggle and hardship. A mother trying to block out the negativity in her sons head, to allow him to persevere, and a young adult trying to understand that even though times can be rough, she can…
Every single person begins in the same way, there is a silence, there is nothing at all. The child is born as tabula rasa; he has no feelings or opinions in his mind. “First thing he heard was Bobby Dazzler on Channel 7” , voices of the family are no longer important, the consumerism and spiritual poverty overwhelm the person from the very beginning. The child is still innocent and this is what makes him lucky – he is not aware of immense stupidity and triviality of the world he was born in. In the next stanza the household and the family are presented. They are described as products to sell, we read an advertisement : “like every other well – equipped smoothly-run household, his included one economy-size Mum, one Antony Squires- Coolstream – Summerweight Dad, along with two other kids straight off Junior Department rack.” All families are the same, there are some standards witch should occur, some typical features. People are just products created according to the pattern. They think and feel in the same way, their houses, clothes, physical appearances and lifestyles are almost identical. Exceptions are not accepted, every one must become a part of a mechanism, fit the…
As she grew older she began to resent Nanny for showing her a way of life where what matters is not the emotional but only the economic stability of the person whom she would be spending her life with. A person such as Janie who viewed the world as the blossoming pear tree where she once sat under and questioned her own nature was able to learn not to mourn but to live “To my thinkin’ mourning oughtn’t tuh last no longer’n grief.”(Page 114). Years ago Janie had told herself to wait for her in the looking glass. “The young girl was gone, but a handsome woman had taken her place”(Page 108) the moment where she was able to separate herself from the “weak” animals and children that could not think for themselves. However it was when Nanny had died along with her dream of love that she became…
The penetrating imagery of a womb that could become a tomb if abortion is carried out in "The Wholly Innocent" will unnerve any reader contemplating terminating a pregnancy or any institution that is pro-abortion. The fact that the unborn foetus is ashamed to feel that he is a part of the "doomed race whose death cell was the womb" evokes untold pity for the defenceless life trapped in his own mother's womb. The persona also highlights that all he wants is to experience the simple things in life like to "rejoice at sun or star". Most readers would believe that it is a universal right for all individuals to see these basic components of nature that we usually take for granted. He also claims through powerful imagery that he never experienced parental love in the line, "I never...knew the sovereign touch of care." Moreover, the persona uses a simile that he will die "anonymous as mud" if nobody protects him. The foetus also uses a biblical allusion comparing himself to a defenceless lamb which certainly evokes untold feelings of pity and sympathy in the reader. Dawe's main aim in publishing this poem was to persuade an extensive part of the public to consider abortion as being a criminal act as they are terminating a foetus's life prematurely. Dawe believed the strongest way he could address this widely…
The anger that the father feels due to his unfortunate circumstances is prevalent throughout the poem and it leads to a strain on the relationship with the speaker as a child. The troubled economy resulted in the father losing his job; the speaker tells us that it was after this occurred that he…
The fire within is a non-fiction children’s book. Written by Chris d’Lacy this quirky book also includes a bit of fantasy and drama. It is set in present time with the main character being a young man about 20 who is a lodger with a small family that consists of Liz, the mother and Lucy, the hyperactive imaginative little seven year old girl. As soon as David (the lodger) enters the home he knows there is something a little weird about this family because no normal family he knows of has clay models of dragons sitting on every window sill and in every corner of their house. On top of that he is pretty sure that no clay model should hiss……
In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.…
I have chosen to explore paragraphs 8, 9 and 11 to interpret what Wordsworth might have meant by this quote. The use of 'fostered' creates the impression of a parent or guardian, and with such a high regard for nature I wonder whether this quote is aimed at her and her so called actions that only Wordsworth seems to feel and encounter.…