Anne Stevensons The Victory
Anne Stevenson is trying to portray a motherfs feelings of pain and anguish of giving birth to a child in the poem The Victory: gI thought you were my victory / though you cut me like a knifeh (Lines 1-2). ... However, throughout the poem, the speaker denies the fact that giving birth to a child is a victory, by using words such as gantagonisth (Line 5), gbruiseh (Line 6) and gscaryh (Line 13). ... The Victory asks these questions.