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Josh's Poem Close Analysis
Jenifer Strauss' Poem 'For Nicholas, One Year Old' may possibly be about the current state of the world. Where the narrator has just pleased her self and still has the 'remnants of a balanced breakfast' in the kitchen she looks at the morning paper which explains in its headlines 'blood and bastardry'.

She seems unpleased and angered by this; 'I bundle up the rubbish savagely'. Then she flees towards her son's comfort, which is in his nursery. This place seems to be a very happy one for her and this is show to the reader by 'sunlight rides buoyant'.

The happiness 'breaks like the benediction on the day', a blessing for help.

'This eggshell burden of delight': showing that her son is fragile in the world. She then thinks negatively of the future (or future for him) 'Dark in the quiet pulsing of your blood'. Then ends the poem with a re-iteration of the horrors of the world.