Questions on Prayer Before Birth by Louis MacNeice.

Prayer Before Birth 

by 

Louis MacNeice

1. “I am not yet born; O fill me
With strength against those who would freeze my
humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton,
would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with
one face, a thing, and against all those
who would dissipate my entirety, would
blow me like thistledown hither and
thither or hither and thither
like water held in the
hands would spill me.”—Explain.

2. “Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me

Otherwise kill me”—Explain the concluding stanza of the poem ‘Prayer Before Birth’.

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