Poetry critical review of "The Victims"

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Juanita Chacon

Poetry and Poetics

November 1, 2004

Dr. Schnebly

"The Victims"

Sharon Olds

In a society where divorce is common, some family members find it hard to cope with. In the first half of "The Victims," it sounds like a young child is telling the experience regarding her parents' divorce. "The Victims," by Sharon Olds, demonstrates the differences of tears, anger, and other emotions. By using different aspects of interpretation, mainly the use of language, tone, speaker, and some imagery was used in the poem to help the readers have an understanding of the sadness, anger, hope and despair suggested in the poem so that it could be observed through the usage of words.

The speaker in Sharon Olds's poem "The Victims" did not really designate who the speaker was; however since Sharon Olds wrote it maybe the speaker was she telling of her own life experiences. In several places within my essay I will refer to the speaker as "her" or "she" because I feel Sharon Olds telling this story in a poem. The speaker expresses much hate and anger towards her father. The speaker is describing to