The Lost Heritage - Heather Buck
A Commentary on The Lost Heritage
The theme of this poem is given away by the title. The poem represents human heritage, more specifically the hertitage of the poet, Heather Buck. I think this poem is her way of expressing her feelings and inhibitions about her painful past and the hardships she endured as a child growing up in a world of adults.
"we hang our quiet landscapes
tipping and tilting them till we achieve
an uneasy marriage
"
These are lines 18, 19 and 20 in stanza three, I believe that when she writes we' she is referring
to her parents and then she generalises, as if all parents and all families were like hers. I believe she is saying that her parents had a rocky marriage before she was born because she goes on to say,
"Was the child with hands outsteched to the blaze
less constrained? Taking her place
on the trampled earth floor with lambs
brought in from the cold bitter springs"
The child is herself and she's saying that when......
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