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B. The Unborn Ones
Line Stanza
The brothers and sisters 1
how stupid of them 2
to leave it up to me. 3
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Stupid too 4
the German psychologist’s 5
advice. 6 2
One child will now 7
Bury her parents. 8
3 The brothers and sisters
9 10
Salty baby mammals Have returned to the sea
turning into little grey whales. 11
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1. Explication of The Unborn Ones
The Unborn Ones was published in 2005. This poem is about the
domestic life and bewildered becoming the parents. It is about the speaker and some people with their life’s activities. Starting from the first stanza: “The brothers and
sisters”. The poem introduces about the purposes of the poem are to tells something to the brothers as represent the man and the sisters as represent the woman. In line 2-
3: “how stupid of them to leave it up to me”. The speaker tells to the readers about the silliness of the brother and sister. The kinds of silliness here stated in the word to
leave it up to me. The word ‘it’ may refers to the problem that will be leaved. In the second stanza, the speaker repeats the word stupid: “ Stupid too”. That
word was told by the psychologist like in the line 4-6: “Stupid toothe German psychologist’s advice”. It means, the brothers and sisters has come to the
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psychologist and ask about solving of their problem, but the psychologist answer that problem with the word stupid too. That word may explain the faults of the brother
and sisters with something that they have done. In the third stanza, the speaker talks more about the result that occurs later.
“One child will nowBury her parents”. The speaker tries to describe the happening that occur later if the brother and sisters leaving the problem. It consequences that the
child will forget their parents because they don’t know who and where is hisher parent. In the last stanza, “ The brothers and sistersSalty baby mammalsHave return
to the sea”. The speaker tells to the brother and sisters that the child sad with the acts of the brothers and sisters to ignorance about the problem of having child. The word
‘salty baby mammals ’ is represent the tears of a baby that was crying, because the taste of tears is salt and mammals as the represent of human itself, because human is a
mammal. And the word ‘sea’ is the word to emphasize that the child if they do not acceptable with their parents they want to ask to return to the uterus. In the last line:
“turning into little grey whales”. The child will be going back the sperm.
2. The Intrinsic elements in The Unborn Ones