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    The poem describes bird shooting season from the perspective of a young girl. Her father's house becomes dominated by macho male hunters gathering in preparation for the next day. That night, the contentless women prepare food and drink for the men while they drink rum. The hunters leave in darkness with their packs and guns. The children are left shivering on the doorstep, with the boys longing to join the hunt one day while the girls whisper hopes for the birds to escape.

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    The poem describes bird shooting season from the perspective of a young girl. Her father's house becomes dominated by macho male hunters gathering in preparation for the next day. That night, the contentless women prepare food and drink for the men while they drink rum. The hunters leave in darkness with their packs and guns. The children are left shivering on the doorstep, with the boys longing to join the hunt one day while the girls whisper hopes for the birds to escape.

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    The poem describes bird shooting season from the perspective of a young girl. Her father's house becomes dominated by macho male hunters gathering in preparation for the next day. That night, the contentless women prepare food and drink for the men while they drink rum. The hunters leave in darkness with their packs and guns. The children are left shivering on the doorstep, with the boys longing to join the hunt one day while the girls whisper hopes for the birds to escape.

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    Bird Shooting Season – Student

    Analysis
    Mickila Gomez & Adelia Duffrin

    Birdshooting Season

    Olive Senior

    Birdshooting season the men

    make marriages with their guns

    My father’s house turns macho

    as from far the hunters gather

    All night long contentless women

    stir their brews: hot coffee

    chocolata, cerassie

    wrap pone and tie-leaf

    for tomorrow’s sport. Tonight

    the men drink white rum neat.

    In darkness shouldering

    their packs, their guns, they leave

    We stand quietly on the

    doorstep shivering. Little boys

    longing to grow up birdhunters too

    Little girls whispering:

    Fly Birds Fly.


    Stanza 1- The poem is in the first person POV and is set at the poet's home. It seems as if it is the
    norm for male hunters to gather here in preparation of the bird shooting season. There are many
    men present as the poet expresses that “My father's house turns macho”. The first two lines
    indicates that the men share a strong relationship or passion with their guns, and it was referred to
    as marriage, almost as if the woman or replaced.

    Stanza 2- Bird shooting season was intentionally referred to as a sport to further emphasise it as a
    recreational activity taken very seriously. This stanza also contrasts the roles of the men and woman
    mentioned; as the men were allowed to drink and relax, the women were assigned to food and
    beverage preparation, supporting the theme of gender roles. The impression was given that the
    women are dissatisfied by their job as they were described as ‘contentless’, giving the reader an
    image of emptiness, only serving the purpose to do as told.

    Stanza 3- This stanza brings the attention on the men as the climax or anticipated parts of the poem
    is slowly approaching. The men leave very late at night in order to journey and await when birds
    come out at dawn. Evidence to support that it is at night is that hot beverages/brews will not usually
    be served at night, nor will the children be shivering. This stanza also leaves the reader in suspense
    of the next occurrence due to the limitation of words used.

    Stanza 4- This stanza describes the curiosity and innocence of the onlooking children. This stanza
    also supports the theme of gender roles/ expectations due to the portrayal of the children's
    thoughts as the contrasted. While boys looked on in awe and aspiration, wanting to carry on the
    traditional ‘macho’ roles, the girls on the other hand, express sympathy, kindness, and emotion
    towards the birds in effort to pressure them as the weaker or submissive sex.

    The tone of the poem was inconsistent throughout the poem as at first it was warm and comforting,
    nostalgic to mysterious and cold till eventually innocent and peaking at the audience curiosity.

    Literary Devices:
    1) Metaphor- Lines 1, 12

    2)Imagery- Line 11

    Themes:  Gender roles, Children’s curiosity, Childhood experiences, Nature

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