1. Commentary on Prayer Before Birth by Louise MacNeice
If the child cannot have a world without these torments he prays for, he state to "otherwise kill me", showing how he is thinking of death before he is born, he does not want to be born and he does not see anything in the world which he could find worth living for. ... The "desert" is also tempting but it leads you to dehydration, starvation and death. ... An example that the poet gives of disdainful people and people not being treated as equals is in the fifth stanza. ... Throughout this stanza the poet give the feeling that the child has no control, he is controlled by society. ... In th...
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