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The two poems that I have chosen to write about are 'Charlotte O'Neil's Song' by Fiona Farrell and 'Blessing' by Imtiaz Dharker.
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The two poems that I have chosen to write about are 'Charlotte O'Neil's Song' by Fiona Farrell and 'Blessing' by Imtiaz Dharker. 'Charlotte O'Neil's Song' is about a girl called Charlotte O'Neil who was a general servant in the nineteenth century and the type of things she would have done. She also writes about the kind of treatment Charlotte would have had, and now that she is free what she is going to do. In this poem Farrell tries to imagine what Charlotte might have said to her employers as she left for her new life in New Zealand. The characters in this poem are Charlotte and her employer who treated the servants like dirt. The poem is written from the point of view of Charlotte O'Neil. The message the poem is trying to put across is the bad treatment of servants. They are treated like dirt instead of a member of the family. The language...
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