The Violence of Childhood
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The most poignant strength of the poem
- The poem 'A Sad Child' by Margaret Atwood
- The lack of compassion in Atwood
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
Being 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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