1.in the first line of 'to the doctor who treated the raped child and who felt despair' the poet asserts that he/she is speaking on 'behalf of us all' what does she mean? 2.the poem seems to move between contrasting settings. write a paragraph in which you quote and discuss examples of this and explain the effect of dowling's constructing her poem manner. 3.the word 'and' is repeated at the beginning of seven different lines in the poem. write a paragraph in which you account for this repetition and explain its effectiveness. you should identify and discuss short quotations from the poem to support answer. 4.what is the speaker trying to do in this poem and how is this achieved? discussa specific instances in the poem to support the answer

1.       The title ‘To the doctor who treated the raped baby and who felt such despair’ is unusual in that it has a long title compared to other titles of a poem. The content of the poem mostly presents how thankful the citizens are to the doctor in saving the baby. It is effective in relation to the poems content because the doctor knew, through diagnosis that the baby is raped and he felt that he must fulfill his duty as a doctor by taking good care of the baby.

2.       The word ‘and’ is repeated at the beginning of seven different lines in the poem. It shows that the repetition indicates how grateful trust we have place on the doctors when many of us cannot do what he does. It is to save a life in the most desperate of circumstances. It maintains that we are all grateful that we have doctors too treat us and we are allowed to sleep well.

3.       The speaker is trying to help the raped baby by treating and taking good care of the baby. The doctor knew, through diagnosis that the baby is raped and he felt that he must fulfill his duty as a doctor by taking good care of the baby.

i think continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they

stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay; ten thousand saw

i at glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.