Questions:
Sachs' "A Dead Child Speaks"
1. Explore the speaker in the poem (not the poet) by studying the language the speaker uses and his or her apparent moods and motivations. What facts do you know about the speaker from the poems? What facts can you infer from the poem? What reasonable guesses can you make about the speaker's sex, age, ethnicity, education, family relationships, personality, interests, etc.
2. Imagine you are the speaker and write a description of yourself. Push beyond what you know or infer from the words of the poem and imagine what might be true for you if you were this person.