... speaker would sound absurd. Since the content of "The Child Dancing" is quite deep and perceptions of readers would be highly varied, therefore the poem can only be appreciated fully if the reader recognizes that the poem is based on someone's thoughts. As you read the title of this poem, "The Child Dancing", it clearly paints an image in your mind of literally a "child dancing". Dancing has always been known as an act of happiness, playfulness, and celebration. MacEwen immediately shatters that idea, as she condemns in the first tercet stanza where the "child" is "dancing", which is in the "Warsaw ghetto". A concentration camp where the Jewish were rounded up and imprisoned by the Nazis during the Second World War. MacEwen's poetic technique assists in justifying her view about how artists have a very powerful role in society and how they can abuse this power. MacEwen cleverly revels this to us by ...

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