The Whipping Themes

"The Whipping" is a very violent poem—it doesn't take a famous critic to pick up on that. Plot-wise, it's about a woman who is whipping a little boy yet again, and who won't let him get away. She...

Home? What home? There's hardly any home to speak of in "The Whipping." Yep, that's exactly the point. All the things we tend to think of when it comes to a home (dinner on the table, comfy couches...

"The Whipping" isn't just about violence and abuse. No, no. It is also about how violent memories of the past still find their way into the present, about how they have a profound effect on our liv...