Valentine Ackland

Today I would like to talk about Valentine Acklands "Whether a Dove or a Seagull LIghted There". This poem is eight lines long with many different uses of rhym. Ackland uses ploce with the word "or" in lines seven and eight and a metaphore in the same lines. I fell as though that this whitness that has fallen is her fiding out she is preagnant after her several miscarriages. She is not sure if this is something that would be good for he due to all the pain she has faced before or something bad but knows that this life form is glowing in the world that is so boring and bare. "I must know before I go away" (line5). It is getting at her and she has a burning desire to know if this baby is real, if it is worth all of this. "The weather of our love is wild or fair/ Or ill or well" (lines 7&8). This is a metaphore comparing love to something that most of us do at some point in time, illness. Is this love a disease that will kill the baby just as it has so many times before, or is it somthing that will treat her wel and complete her lifel? I feel that this whitness or what I think is a baby has the interst of Ackland and I truly and she will do what ever it takes to find out if this is possibly real.