Poem

The Awakening

Title	The Awakening
Author	Leland Bardwell

Instances of Publication

A published appearance of this poem.

Collection/Anthology	Year of Publication	Medium	View Details
Collected Poems (Leland Bardwell)	2022	Print Collection	View Details

Publication Instance Details #3202

Collection/Anthology Details

Collection/Anthology	Collected Poems (Leland Bardwell)
Date of Publication	2022
Publisher	Salmon Poetry (Ireland)
Page Number(s)	95

Publication Overview

Translation	Is Multilingual	Explicit Irish Context?	Ekphrasis	Has Paratext?	Reference to News, Media or Technology
No	No	No	No	No	No

Details

Human Rights Issues	Poverty/Deprivation/Lack of Sustenance Racism/anti-Semitism/Sectarianism Forced Labour (incl. slavery & child labour) State Violence Gender-based violence
Languages	English
Genre	Short Lyric
Medium	Print Collection
Notes	The poem evokes a recollection of the speaker while engaging in everyday, mundane rituals of domestic labour. The image of the pharaoh Cheops and his underage boy slave weaves themes of slavery and masculinity with gender oppression.

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