The Deliverer
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- The Deliverer
- Beginning
- Stanza 3
- "One of them was dug up by a dog"
- "dug up by a dog"
- 'dog'- The dog has potential to harm the baby, evokes sympathy
- "dug...dog"- Alliterative/fricative- strong emotion/as if the speaker is saying it through gritted teeth
- "dug up by a dog"
- "the head"- dehumanises the baby, encourages the reader to see how some people view these children
- "bone or wood, something to chew"- Further dehumanises the baby, suggests their value
- "One of them was dug up by a dog"
- Stanza 2
- "naked in the streets"- Lexis of vulnerability
- "Covered in garbage,stuffed in bags"
- "garbage...stuffed...bags"- Fricative, Strong emotion, suggests the speaker is angry about how the children are treated
- Specific situations- evokes sympathy
- 'covered', 'stuffed', 'abandoned'- Semantic field of hiding things
- Stanza 4
- "This is the one my mother will bring."
- "my mother"- Shifts the speaker from being distant to having a connection to the events
- Singular line- Creates impact, allows the reader to reflect on what the speaker has said
- "This is the one my mother will bring."
- Stanza 1
- "Our Lady of the Light Convent, Kerala"
- "Convent"- Religious lexis, a place of safety
- Give the poem a subtitle, creates a sense of place
- "Kerala"- Non-British connotations , foreign
- "they were crippled or dark or girls"
- "or...or"- create pauses and emphasises the nouns
- "collect children"- Alliteration, Almost oxymoronic
- "Our Lady of the Light Convent, Kerala"
- Title
- "The Deliverer"
- Not specific, implies it is a universal role
- "The"- Implies that the role is important/notable
- "Deliverer"
- Of Children into the world
- Of Children to new homes
- Of Children to Death?
- Biblical connotations- 'Deliver us from evil'
- "The Deliverer"
- Stanza 3
- Middle
- Stanza 7
- "But they are crying./"We couldn't stop crying"
- Switches speaker, narrator to mother, the speaker is trying to compare her own experiences with universal experiences- Emotive
- "crying"- Repetition, emphasises and juxtaposes the unemotional attachment of the previous mother
- Emphasises two different cultures through their responses
- "But they are crying./"We couldn't stop crying"
- Stanza 6
- "Don't know-"- Frank/unemotional tone
- "her fetish for plucking hair off hands."
- "fetish"- Sexual/Un-childlike connotations, the child seems disturbed
- Specific, implies she already has a personality
- "Or how her mother tried to bury her"- Oxymoronic/Juxtaposing lexis of someone who brings life into the world vs someone who takes it away
- Stanza 8
- Stanza 5
- '*'- Represents a shift in views
- "The parents wait at the gates."
- 'wait'-Shifts to present tense
- 'The'- Once again encourages the reader to view the events from a universal perspective
- "They are American so they know about ceremony, tradition, about doing things right"
- Preconceived/Simplistic stereotypes of the Western World- Shifts to a child's perspective?
- "ceremony", "tradition"- Sarcastic tone, since America is very modern/capatilist
- Stanza 7
- End
- Stanza 10
- "squeeze", "slither"- Only real adjectives, negative, to describe the kind of experience childbirth is to these women
- Stanza 11
- "Feel for penis or no penis"
- "Feel"- The women are emotionally disconnected
- "penis or no penis"- Girls have no value/defined by their genitalia
- "Toss the baby to the heap of others"
- "Toss"
- The poem is active rather than figurative (verbs), shows the lack of emotional attachment and the how the women try to survive
- "Toss"- Harsh/Strong/Direct- conveys strong emotion
- "heap of others"- dehumanises the babies
- "Toss"
- "Feel for penis or no penis"
- Stanza 9
- "some desolate hut"- emotive tone, isolated, an un-special experience
- Stanza 12
- "Trudge home to lie for their men again"
- "Trudge"- Reluctant, have given in to the ideologies of their culture
- Single line- Creates impact, epitomises the speaker's argument
- "lie for their men again"
- Men are the problem?
- Single line- Creates impact, epitomises the speaker's argument
- Men are the problem?
- "Trudge home to lie for their men again"
- Stanza 10
- Basic Features
- Not Written in substantial stanzas- Rather tercets, couplets or singular lines
- Singular lines- Stand out and places emphasis on certain ideas within the poem
- Lines- No consistent structure, creates pauses, represents the ambiguity of the children's lives
- No figurative/Descriptive language- makes the tone flat/suggests the speaker is trying be factual and raise awareness
- Not Written in substantial stanzas- Rather tercets, couplets or singular lines
- Beginning
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