Analysis of Refugee mother and Child Essay

The title of the poem gives off the initial impression that the poem may focus on refugees genius who flees to seek refuge, The lives of refugee nipperren, their parents, their feelings, their emotions and their pain. For a news she soon would have to forget. This foreshadows the idea that her son is dying, and she would have to forget him to adapt to her tragic loss. 2 The metaphor in the fist stanza, No bloody shame and Child could touch that picture, relates to the idea of Mary and her babe, Jesus. The picture perfect experience the ideal image of motherhood. The picture of a beautiful, serene mother with her sanctified new born child. Realistically the scene would have been far from that idea of bliss. The idea of the first stanza is that the tenderness that the character, the mother, expresses towards her child in the poem surpasses the ideal image of Mary and Jesus. The two situations do not even compare to the depth of love and tenderness of the Refugee Mother and Child . 3 The poet uses the repetition and the contrasting ideas of the word washed in describing the emaciated state of the refugee children. Unwashed the hygienic state, and Washed-out the animal(prenominal) state of the children due to the lack of food. 4 Blown empty bellies, the physical demeanor of the childrens stomachs because of the limited food supply of only carbohydrates. From this unhealthy diet the combination of acids and gases blow out the stomach of the children.This vivid description could also peradventure be a pun to the blowflies in Africa. 5 A ghost smile, this metaphor could possibly be two ideas The mother is happy because she is with her son, you preserve tell she is happy but her smile is faint, hard to notice. Her happiness give the axet easily be seen, her smile is not shown in a physical appearance, it holds happiness that gives off its emotion in a feeling which cant quite be explained, but can be felt by others. This metaphor shows how the mother keeps a fake, or ghost smile on her lips for her childs sake so her son doesnt have every fears or worries because he feels content because his mother is content. 6 In her eyes you can see her pride in her son. It is inconspicuous and faded like the fingers breadth of a ghost. This line of the poem conveys the mothers pride towards her son, the poem describes this by being able to faintly see her pride towards her son in her eyes. 7 The use of the word skull is a common symbol for death and foreshadows or represents the death of her son. 8 Singing is commonly known as a happy experience, singing in her eyes could possiblybe how the Mother expresses her pride, content and happiness in her son, and how this is passed. Somewhat like the idea of the ghost smile, you cant see or hear the Mother singing it is seen in her eyes.9 This simile compares the two ideas of a normal over looked action in another life and a tender and cautious action in their world, the world of the Refugee Mother and Child. In this gentle action, due to her sons dying condition, she takes care composition she carefully parts his hair her way of quietly expressing love to her son. This little act being one of the few things she can do for her son and one of the few ways she can express her love to him. This action is being compared to putting flowers on a tiny grave of a dead child because it is a gentle and careful action something you would do very cautiously. And tiny grave because of her sons little size due to his young age. If the child is already passed on when his Mother is section his hair, this idea of death links to the distinct previous use of the word skull, by the poet.With this evidence, the poem could also be after the child has died and the mother is still holding and caressing her child, gently, carefully and cautiously yet he is no longer alive. This action is explained in a simile and compares her parting his thinning hair to laying flowers on a tiny grave another link to the possible idea that the son is already dead. The mother is gently parting her sons hair as a way to say goodbye, since he has passed on just like another form of look good bye, placing flowers on a grave starting closure and acceptance.