HOSPITAL FOR DEFECTIVES - PRACTICE PARAGRAPH (TREATMENT TOWARDS SUBJECTS WITHIN SOCIETY)

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Discuss the treatment towards subjects in society in the poem 'Hospital for defectives'

Plan

  • Unethical treatment towards the disabled which was everyday life (consistent with what movement poets discussed)
  • Extended metaphor used throughout the poem 
  • Metaphor - "Unleavened bread" shows how the poeple are seen to be incomplete and not full 'humans' as "Yeast was not put in" which makes bread bread, showing theres something human missing.
  • Also supported through alternating rhyme scheme (incomplete 'turnips'
  • Violent langauge shows treament towards them "warders blows" and contradicts the 1945 welfare act stating diasbaled would be provided with care 

Within the poem 'hospital for defectives', subjects were treated unethically. The 'turnips' (who represent those who suffer from

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