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Refugee Mother and Child

why does the poet use the word 'ghost' on two occassions in line 10-14?

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The word ghost provides imagery.... imagery of the weakness of the mother, as she sits surrounded by death and waste. It also provides foreshadowing of both her and her child's fates.

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