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The Deliverer
Doshi - Coggle Diagram
The Deliverer
Doshi
Themes
Gender
- Inequality in society (poem about female infanticide)
- Girls treated as inanimate objects - no connection with mother at birth - juxtaposes excepted image of motherhood
Culture
- In this culture - being a women isn't what people want - later on in the poem we see that other cultures accept both genders and that a baby girl is still the opportunity for a women to experience motherhood
Tone
Ambiguity
- Throughout the poem there's a need and longingness to completely find who 'The Deliverer' is - 'The'
Disconnect
- Speaker tells the story in 3rd person - shows self distance, lack of emotion in poem also enforces this
Structure & Technique
3 line stanzas - shows routine, juxtaposes lack of routine in birthplace
Stanza 3 and 9 have a single line after, shows loss of happiness
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Objectification of baby - imagery
- "One of them"
- "Bone or wood"
Animal Imagery -
- "dug up by a dog"
- "body slither out from body (removes the purity from child birth - slither connotes snake (garden of Eden) and shows the lack trust and love the mother gives the baby in this culture
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