The Deliverer Flashcards
what is the deliverer about
it discusses the infanticide in india whereby girls were abandoned to be die or be adopted by foreign families
explores feelings of detachment and identity crisis
crippled or dark or girls
tricolon creates a matter of fact tone
girls are put at the end of the list - emph their lack of significance
covered in garbage, stuffed in bags/ abandoned at their doorstep
simplistic verbs highlight the violent brutality of the infanticide - lack of figurative language depicts the horrific nature
This is the one my mother will bring home
equates her to a thing which creates her lack of identity alongside detachment
Don’t know her fetish for plucking her hair off hands
her trauma has led to her developing strange behaviours - highlights her detachment from adopted family since they see her behaviours as unusual
feeling the strangeness of her empty arms
speaker shows distance and disconnection from the western culture - lack of belonging and identity
This girl grows up on video tapes
detached tone shows how she is unable to reconcile with her own identity and experiences
passed from woman/ to woman
enjambment highlights her lack of home/family which shows her struggle for belonging
she returns to twilight corners
will always be haunted by the taboo and hidden nature of her dark cultural past
the desolate hut/ outside village boundaries
semantic field of marginalisation emphasises the social inferiority of women and undesirability -othering
where mothers go to squeeze out life
pun - the birth of girls into infanticide or their shunning from society
watch body slither out from body
biblical imagery of adam and eve
women in religious hierarchy are seen as inferior and sinners that deserve to be punished - gave into temptation = weak
penis or no penis
linguistic parallel shows how accustomed society is to the practice of infanticide- nearly desensitised
shows the quick paced simplistic brutality of their actions
toss the baby to the heap of others
casual tone highlights the callous nature and disregard for the girls
trudge home to lie down for their men again
blame lies along the patriarchal society
single line stanza - ends the poem on conception which shows the neverending cyclical nature of infanticide
