Judith Beveridge poems

Poetry offers a new way to look at familiar situations. Judith Beveridge does this in three of poems. “The Domesticity of giraffes”, “Fox in a tree stump” and “The Two Brothers”. Through the use of repetition and personification she incorporates her feelings about cruelty towards animals and humans. She uses these techniques in all three of her poems.
Poetry shows the reader a new way to look at familiar situations and in her poem “The Domesticity of Giraffes” she uses repetition to show the cruelty towards the Giraffe. This creates a feeling of annoyance towards the zoo as the reader wants the Giraffe to be free. She repeats the phrase “licks the salt” which is what the Giraffe is doing constantly shows how the Giraffe is self-harming because its mouth gets drier and drier, this shows how boarded the Giraffe is. Beveridge shows this torture through repetition in all of her poems which familiarises the reader with her message that animal cruelty is wrong.
In Beveridge’s other poem “The Fox in the Tree Stump” she also uses repetition to sow animal cruelty throughout. This gives us an insight towards her feelings about animal cruelty. The use of the word “shot” is constantly repeated while there is no gun being fired it implies something is being damaged or hit. The “shot” is what the girl is imagining while she is hitting the fox. This is done to part herself from the killing, making it sound like someone else is shooting it for her. Beveridge shows the cruelty towards animals once again throughout “the Fox in a Tree Stump” by repeating the violent and abrupt word “shot”.
In Beveridge’s third poem the situation of cruelty is present but it is not towards an animal but towards a girl. She again uses repetition to how the reader that it is not only happening once but multiple times. “The Two Brothers” torture and kill animals while the girl is caring in the fact that she tries to save even the snails from the torturous ways of “The Brothers” The repetition of the