"The Whipping"

1. What is the poem about?
2. How does Hayden depict the woman? What motivates her to beat the boy?
3. How does Hayden depict the boy? The speaker? What is similar about the three?
4. How does the final stanza affect the meaning of the poem?
5. Reflect on the line “Well, it is over now, it is over”
6. Analyze Hayden’s use of:
  1. Imagery
  2. Diction
  3. Alliteration
  4. Repetition
  5. Turn
  6. Stanza breaks
7. What is the poem about?

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