Prayer before birth

Question 1

O hear me

Answer 1

Imperative: emotive effect of the child’s appeal, to be heart and to receive protection- symbolises innocent in the world who are often unheard

Question 2

Or the rat or the stoats or the club-footed ghoul

Answer 2

Polyimide term emphasises the share number of threats facing the unborn child

Question 3

What are the verbs doing in stanza two?

Answer 3

All the verbs are performed upon the speaker, not by the speaker without their choice or control

Question 4

With ‘wise lies’ lure me

Answer 4

Oxymoronic are lies ever wise it’s easier to believe lies

Question 5

My words when they speak me, my thoughts when they think me

Answer 5

Unusual syntax because the speaker (child) Has no agency they’re being acted upon/control not allowed to think their own thought

Question 6

How is repetition of o hear me emotive?

Answer 6

Create pathos implies they have not been heard in their prayer has not yet been answered by God it’s a pleading tone and it shows the speakers desperation

Question 7

Man who is beast

Answer 7

Beast is a biblical illusion to the book of Revelations to the antichrist false profit empowered by Satan to deceive others and men who think they are god