The Death Baby

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"The Death Baby" is a darkly surreal poem by Margaret Atwood that explores themes of mortality, fear, and the uncanny through the unsettling figure of a deathly child.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf literary work
poem
author Margaret Atwood NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Canada
creatorNationality Canadian
exploresConcept existential anxiety
human mortality
psychological fear
uncanny domesticity
featuresCharacter deathly child
genre dark surrealism
poetry
hasForm lyric poem
hasMedium print
text
hasSubject childhood
death
fear of death
language English
literaryMovement contemporary literature
literaryStyle dark
surreal
portrays unsettling child figure
theme death
fear
mortality
the uncanny
tone darkly ironic
eerie
unsettling

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The Book of Folly containsWork The Death Baby
1972: The Book of Folly hasPoem The Death Baby