Topic:
The Deliverer – Tishani Doshi
Key Points/Arguments
Themes Literary/Dramatic Devices Techniques of whole poem
‘the’ ambiguity
‘Our lady of the Light Convent, Kerala’ – Christianity, religious/holy connotations with the role of deliverer
‘collect children’ – dehuamnises the,. They are expensive, like they are a business transaction
‘crippled or dark or girls’ – ‘or’ polysydeton emphasises racism/sexism and lack of distinction, the simple lexis shows
reality of transactional brutality as well as social stigma with harsh plosives
‘found naked’ – lose of dignity
‘covered/stuffed/abandoned’ – dehumanised, casual and widespread issue
‘something to chew’ – evocative, amplifies horror
‘one [my mother will bring]’ – lucky few are helped, doesn’t have an identity yet, depersonalises action
‘Milwaukee Airport, USA’ – juxtaposes convent, symbolises modern, advanced attitudes
‘fetish for plucking hair off hands’ – self soothing/destructive due to trauma
‘mother tried to bury her’ – birth and death juxtapose – unnatural yet protective?
‘we couldn’t stop crying’ – dialogue, shifts to present day and raises question of what makes a parent
‘this girl’ – dissociates her, he had a general identity – shows huge amount of ppl this has happened to
‘video tapes’ – gets to understand her identity and story, perhaps traumatic
‘she returns to twilight corners’ – find her identity
‘desolate hut’ – suggests she was born into poverty, moral transgression hidden/accepted?
‘squeeze out life’ – no celebration, routine and uncomfortable occurrence, life juxtaposes the greatness of life
‘body slither out from body’ – dehumanises birth like a transaction, Garden of Eden, humanity cannot be redeemed
‘again’ – cyclical
The Deliverer – Tishani Doshi
Key Points/Arguments
Themes Literary/Dramatic Devices Techniques of whole poem
‘the’ ambiguity
‘Our lady of the Light Convent, Kerala’ – Christianity, religious/holy connotations with the role of deliverer
‘collect children’ – dehuamnises the,. They are expensive, like they are a business transaction
‘crippled or dark or girls’ – ‘or’ polysydeton emphasises racism/sexism and lack of distinction, the simple lexis shows
reality of transactional brutality as well as social stigma with harsh plosives
‘found naked’ – lose of dignity
‘covered/stuffed/abandoned’ – dehumanised, casual and widespread issue
‘something to chew’ – evocative, amplifies horror
‘one [my mother will bring]’ – lucky few are helped, doesn’t have an identity yet, depersonalises action
‘Milwaukee Airport, USA’ – juxtaposes convent, symbolises modern, advanced attitudes
‘fetish for plucking hair off hands’ – self soothing/destructive due to trauma
‘mother tried to bury her’ – birth and death juxtapose – unnatural yet protective?
‘we couldn’t stop crying’ – dialogue, shifts to present day and raises question of what makes a parent
‘this girl’ – dissociates her, he had a general identity – shows huge amount of ppl this has happened to
‘video tapes’ – gets to understand her identity and story, perhaps traumatic
‘she returns to twilight corners’ – find her identity
‘desolate hut’ – suggests she was born into poverty, moral transgression hidden/accepted?
‘squeeze out life’ – no celebration, routine and uncomfortable occurrence, life juxtaposes the greatness of life
‘body slither out from body’ – dehumanises birth like a transaction, Garden of Eden, humanity cannot be redeemed
‘again’ – cyclical
