1. An Abandoned Bundle
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2. Understand the poem: 1. The shacks
2. They are covered in blood that is dripping from their mouths, as they fight for something that is alive.
3. Jesus
4. Maybe she did not have the means to look after the child, so she had become a victim of her circumstances.
Explore poetic devices:
1. “chimney smoke”, “thick yellow pus”, “smothered”.
2. They feel trapped or suffocated, they feel as though they have nowhere else to go.
3. Both Jesus and the baby never committed a sin yet, they both died horrible deaths.
4. (a) There are images of different forms of water, representing purity or cleansing.
(b) untouched, never been walked on.