Wholly Innocent Poem

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I have chosen the poem 'The Wholly Innocent' by Bruce Dawe as my proposal as the topic and the techniques used in the text really appealed to me. 'The Wholly Innocent' is very much a controversial poem written in the late fifties on the topic of abortion. Dawe metaphorically gives the unborn child who normally wouldn't have the chance to speak for himself a voice in this poem by writing the text in first person through the point of view of an unborn foetus. I have chosen to follow Dawe's techniques of an AB rhyming scheme and similes/metaphors to convey my controversial topic of human euthanasia. My poem will also be in first person through the point of view of a person who is suffering and would like to be given the opportunity to euthanize