Chicken-licken
Chicken-licken - meaning Summary
Fear Becomes Self-imprisonment
The poem depicts a woman who retreats from life out of fear — of men, sin, and nighttime — and seals herself physically and mentally. Her precautions become permanent isolation; decades later her bones are discovered when her building is demolished. The final medical verdict, "dead of acute peoplelessness," frames loneliness as a lethal condition. The poem compresses a life wasted by fear into a stark, civic image of erasure and social death.
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