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Prayer for the child
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| background | An elegy for those who passed from her community in dublin, due to a drug epidemic exploring themes of suffering,addictionpoverty |
| great tree from the far northern forest still rich with the sap (STanza 1) | an image of a annual christmas tree erected in memory of children who lost their lives.Also highlighting the tree pulses with life with ''sap'' displaying remeberance |
| The scream,the siren,the knock on the door (stanza 3) | creating a chaotic terror that plagued those in inner city Dublin,conveying pressure of emergency services and the knock on the door acting as news breaker to families about an overdose. |
| The needle in its track the knife in its back (Stanza 3) | depicts a vein mark left by drug use and also sugggesting poverty and drug epidemic is stuck on a repeating track |
| the streets that gave them visions and dreams,that promised them everything that delivered nothing (Stanza 5) | (Personification) displaying how streets gave them false hope luring them away from the reality of poverty with empty promises of fulfillment |
| Themes | 1)Addiction,poverty,remeberance and social justice |