At then she goes on to talking about her son which I think she had mentioned before in the poem were it says “So now I moan, an unclean thing” as if she did not want a child but now I think she is pleased with having a special gift which is her child and then she goes on to saying that her cousin Kate will never get what she has got because she never destined to get it. It says in the poem “I’ve got a gift you have not got, And seem not like to get: … I’ve little doubt you fret. My fair haired son my shame, my pride” … So she does not regret anything that has happened. She criticises her sister a little throughout the poem and is always saying she made a mistake but she got the best out of it like her fair headed son.
Seduction means to seduce which means to lead astray and then tempt them into a sin or crime which the whole poem is based on.
The poem is about a girl who gets persuaded by a handsome boy that he is the one for her and she can trust him fully. In the poem it says “She had nodded, quite enchanted” … “so she fell in love” so she thinks that he has chosen her or she is the one for him.
Later in this poem she finds out that she is 3 months gone in other terms three months pregnant with her x boyfriend’s baby. “When she discovered she was three months gone” She is frightened and very scared and the poem tells “And realised, for once, that she was truly truly frightened” She hates her life so much that she would rather take drugs than live in this hell that she has made by herself trusting some boy she had met at the party. She tells us that she wants to take drugs by “But then again better to be smoking scented drugs…” From that moment on her life lead her into a totally different path.
She talks about her bright and colourful past which she can remember very clearly and wants to go back where she was with her friends in different places lie Blackpool by saying “Where were the glossy photographs of summer, Day trips to Blackpool, jumping all the rides?” so that’s why she wants to go back into her lively past.
This poem shows how life can be sometimes and that you can never trust it. It shows her experiences with a lovely, gorgeous boy (what she thinks of him) and after how she is completely shattered. “With fingers that stroked her neck and thighs”… to “she cried that she had missed all her innocence around her” so that shows you what the narrator felt and was like from her past to her present.
This poem might make boys seem bad and horrible but all boys are normally not like that and that girls always fall into a trap but sometimes they don’t from what it says in the poem like “All the parties where you’d meet the boy next door, Where you walk hand in hand, in an acne’d wonderland,”… This shows that she remembers the past and its like she cusses it and that she doesn’t want it to happen again like its going to happen again.
