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These three poems examine the experiences of victims in society. Give a detailed account of each poem showing how the people suffer in their lives.
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GCES Coursework Poetry Assignment Victims Poetry These three poems examine the experiences of victims in society. Give a detailed account of each poem showing how the people suffer in their lives. A victim is a person injured or killed or made to suffer. In each poem I have read there has been a victim. Roger McGough has described an unattractive man boarding a bus in the poem, "Hippopotamusman". He then explains the repulsed reactions of the passengers. By the way they responded to the man, they were making him a victim because of his appearance. The Nigerian poet Wole Soyinka talks about a man who is trying to obtain some accommodation over the phone. But the landlady is very concerned about having him as a tenant because of the colour of his skin. He is black, and the landlady is victimising him because of it. In the third poem "Tramps on Waterloo Station"...
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