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Response to Robert Hayden's - The Whipping Who is the boy being whipped?

from ilza (ilza@pobox.com)
I do hope someone will answer you, for I am curious now.

I always related this poem to his troubled childhood - "an emotionally tumultuous childhood", "shuttled between the home of his parents and that of a foster family, who lived next door".

Maybe I was wrong ?! But whenever I read this poem it makes me so sad - for reasons I don't quite understand.

(posted 8811 days ago)

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