prayer before birth

Prayer before birth is a marveled piece of work by Louis Macneice.

This poem is written amid the bombing of London. Through the persona of an unborn child, the monologue makes an anxious plea for individuality, a worthwhile and natural life free from and manupalitory and corrupting power of threats and terror.

Mac Neice has written this poem from an unusual perspective as he uses short lines and a strange usage of wo...