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Unto Us Spike Milligan's "Unto Us" is one of his more serious poems that is about the issue of abortion or rather abortion for convenience. He adopts the persona of an unborn child which is unusual, yet effective method of narration, as it evokes sympathy from the reader. The poem tells the story of a child who is desperate for life but is "murdered" before he/she has a chance to live. The title of the poem "Unto Us" is taken directly from the phrase in the Bible: "Unto us a child is born". This shortened version of the biblical reference is clever as it relates to the child's life being cut short. This is just one of the techniques used by the writer that makes it effective and I will be discussing these through the rest of the essay. The poem is split up into three sections: conception and leading up...

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