Reread Prayer Before Birth by Louis Macneice. Explore how the poet conveys the modern world as brutal and a corrupting force.
Title: Reread Prayer Before Birth by Louis Macneice. Explore how the poet conveys the modern world as brutal and a corrupting force.
Category: /Literature/Poetry
Details: Words: 1002 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Reread Prayer Before Birth by Louis Macneice. Explore how the poet conveys the modern world as brutal and a corrupting force.
Category: /Literature/Poetry
Details: Words: 1002 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
In prayer before birth, Louis Macneice uses a baby to convey his thoughts and emotions on the current state of the world. Macneice wishes to emphasize how harsh and ruthless the world is, and how it can strip away a young unborn baby of its innocence. By cleverly combining uses of structure, rhyme scheme and rhetorical techniques Macneice effectively conveys the pain and suffering which occurs in society today.
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Thus we can see that Macneice conveys the brutality and corruption of the world through several methods, but most importantly through an unborn baby. Macneice wants us to think about the world- he has systematically listed some of the events and things that are bad with the world. Macneice wants us to ask ourselves this striking question: If we cannot guarantee the safety and well-being of our next generation, should we kill them?