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What Is The Central Idea Of The Poem My Daughter?

What Is The Central Idea Of The Poem My Daughter?

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  1. In this poem, a man muses on his anxieties about having an imagined daughter in the future. It starts with a reflection on his fictional daughter’s fateful future and the gloomy setting in which she will live. The speaker worries that this world will fill her with hatred and destructive tendencies and that she will relish the bitterness of other people’s suffering. This poem is distinctive because of the speaker’s realistic yet pessimistic perspective on the world and how it would devastate the life of his made-up daughter.

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