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 racist discrimination that was happening to the Jews and the tortures, prisons and gas chambers they were put through. ... The poet is saying that we must show an interest in their stories and learn from them. ... The poet uses this method because it shows that these are things that we have to do for society but in actua...
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