The Violence of Childhood
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published 23/05/2008
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SummaryBeing an adult usually implies that you have a power of perspective, that is, to see things in a larger system and then to understand these things as being symptomatic of this system. Naturally, children lack this ability and their sense of reality is tenuous and fragmented, and many times their only frame of reference is a shadowy emotional memory itself. Richard Wilbur in the poem “The Writer” and Margaret Atwood in her poem “A Sad Child” both recognize the violence of childhood consciousness and both have written poems suggesting where the child’s line of self and perspective will be or may be under certain conditions. Both poets recognize the severe circumstances, the conceptual intensity, and the wavering devastation of being either too close or far away from the ego.
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- Richard Wilbur begins his poem about his daughter writing a short story in her room.
- Perhaps the most poignant strength of the poem is the subsequent parallelism that he draws between the experience of his daughter to one of a bird that once got caught in her room.
- The poem 'A Sad Child' by Margaret Atwood.
- Atwood is ostensibly less compassionate.
- Though the voice of each poem distinctively carries its own spiritual energy
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