Refugee Mother And Child Poem

In the poem, “Refugee Mother and Child” the speaker illustrates everyday life is as a refugee, but he specifically focuses on a refugee mother experience. The speaker in this poem is the author, and he is depicts what this refugee mother is going through, while her child is dying. The author is trying to illustrate how unique a mother’s love is for her family and children, regardless of their social status, situation, and conditions. In the poem the author shows this through the eyes of a refugee mother that has a son “she soon would have to forget.” The author makes a bold metaphorical comparison of the refugee mother with the blessed mother, Mary, “No Madonna and Child could touch that picture of a mother’s tenderness.” The fact that the author compares a normal mother to the blessed mother means that this mother has to be special in her own unique way to

The poem itself is a simple, understandable poem because it uses easy word and is clear in its depiction. The title has a direct relation to the poem, because it specifically talk about a tree that bear a fruit nurtured by the speaker 's negative emotions, “Till it bore an apple bright,” and that ‘apple’ is poisonous, so the tree that bore the poisonous apple is in fact a ‘poison tree.’ The author does a good job relating the title to the poem itself, by his use of imagery, and alliteration. I would say that the entire poem is completely alliterated because you can always hear the same constant sound with some words keep being repeated, and it also adds to the rhyming of the poem. Not only is the entire poem alliterated, in my opinion, but it also has a nursery rhythm scheme to it. Not only does the rhyming scheme makes it more fluent, but the choice of words is also immature to a point where once you have read it once you immediately know what the poet was trying to get across, and know what he was saying