Tuesday, May 26, 2009

News at Eleven: This Stonepicker, as [Frieda] Hughes explains

in her notes, "believes she can do no wrong, only that wrong is done to her." That attitude contributes to the cruelty and hardships described throughout the section. In the second poem, "Playground," Hughes recounts a childhood experience where a "small girl" and a group of boys taunted and teased "a big girl,"

Filling up the big girl's head

from Christian Science Monitor: Stonepicker and The Book of Mirrors

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