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on the water? which contradicts the happy, innocence of the previous statement. The

mood of the poem progresses to become even darker and we sense that our earlier

prediction that something bad was going to happen nears when the line, ? the

Mersey, green, like a sceptic wound? is delivered. We

learn that the girl has been seduced when it turns out that the boy?s breath

smells of mouthwash, suggesting that he was not even drunk.? This raises the emotions and angers the

readers and thus the poet has been successful in creating a tense atmosphere. There

is a massive change in scenery by the beginning of the second half of the poem

starting from stanza number nine and we indirectly learn that she is pregnant

when it says: ?When

she discovered she was three months gone.? We

witness the leaving of childhood and the introduction to adulthood when she

rips her ?My Guy? and ?Jackie photo-comics? from her wall. The

girl realises the enormity of her mistake and begins to ask herself questions

angrily and rhetorically, ?Where

now, is the summer of my sixteenth year?? and, ?Where

are all the day trips to Blackpool, jumping all the rides?? A

powerful line which could put all teenage girls off having un-protected sex

came in the third last stanza, ?So she cried that she had missed all the

innocence around her.? Again

the mood changes as we enter the final two verses and we leave the sorrowful

stage and enter the aggressive stage. Mc Auley uses sarcasm to emphasise the

anger expressed by the mother-to-be: ?But

then again to be smoking scented drugs or festering, invisibly unemployed.? Better to destroy your life in modern,

man-made ways, than fall into this feminine void.? Better to starve yourself, like a sick precious child, than to

walk through town with a belly, huge and ripe.?

And better now to turn away, move away, fade away, than to have the

neighbours whisper, ?You always looked the type.?? ? Through

these last two stanzas we can see cast amounts of anger and regret expressed