Monday, 8 October 2018

Refugee Mother and Child - Poem - by Chinua Achebe - Notes - SUMMARY


Refugee Mother and Child

--Chinua Achebe 

“Refugee Mother and Child” is a poem written by Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian poet.  

This poem presents a realistic picture of a refugee mother and her child.  The visual quality of the poem makes it all the more pathetic. The squalor and filth of the refugee camp is created with picturesque description.

The poet compares the refugee mother to Madonna, the picture of Virgin Mary.  The air is heavy with the odour of diarrhoea from the unwashed children. With their washed out ribs and dried up bellies, the children struggle to walk.  E

xcept the mother seen by the poet, all most all other mothers stopped worrying about their dying children. There is a ghost like smile on her face.  She combs the hair on the bare skull of her dying child.  This would have been an act of no importance anywhere else in the world. But, here in the refugee camp, she does it with such a care as putting flowers on a tiny grave.
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Noojilla Srinivas
Lecturer in English
Govt. Degree College - Alamuru
M: 7981862200
email: noojillasrinivas@gmail.com 

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