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Child Of Our Time
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Mind Map on Child Of Our Time, created by Cli Guilford on 18/11/2017.
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Child Of Our Time
Violence in society - Tone alternates between tenderness and bitterness
The speaker traces the failure of society to protect and nourish its children and accuses it of sabotaging the fragile limbs of innocence
Spoken with considerable anger and perhaps guilt
Despite the focus on musical terms, the poet wants to emphasis the horrible sound of the child's "Final cry"
Instead of... He has had his maimed body removed from the ruins of bombed building
Child was murdered by the adult world
Claims that our "idle talk" has led to this violence/cost this child's life and people must realise the consequences
Similar to "The war horse" which also discusses the horrific effects of war
Link to the pomegranate which also describes losing a child - To adulthood
Title acts as the tone - "our" suggesting a sense of responsibility, which encompasses the - placed in a position of authority
Emotional response to an innocent victim of violence
We have created a violent world that makes victims of our children
She laments the death of a young boy who was killed in the Dublin bombings of 1974
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