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The first stanza only speaks of individual people. Another danger in life is what people such as those referred to in the first stanza do to each other. It is the danger of what man is capable of doing to its own kind. The line "tall walls wall me" has internal rhyme and an "l" alliteration and signifies what was happening in the world at the time the poem was written. The racist discrimination that was happening to the Jews and the tortures, prisons and gas chambers they were put through. Using a "d" alliteration in the line "strong drugs dope me", the poet insinuates how humans sin by poisoning, numbing and wasting themselves and each other. The "racks" torture their victim, stretching them to their limits in immense pain and agony. The play on words with "rack" and the "r" alliteration enhances the imagery of the creaking, turning handles of the "rack". In an ideal world for the unborn child, everyone would be treated as an equal and there would be no discrimination. People would cure each other rather than poison each other. And humans would never harm or hurt each other. .
Continuing the argument of what people are prone to do to other people is lead them into with lies into traps, as the line "wise lies lure me" states in the second stanza. This refers to how politicians lead large masses of people into traps for only their own benefit. The poet also brings up traps and deception in the fifth stanza when inflexible "bureaucrats" bully and nag him for things which only interest the bureaucrat. The "white waves" and the "desert" look tempting, to swim and cool down in or to walk along golden sands and warmth, but they are actually perilous. The when "waves" are "white", it usually means that they are rough and to swim in them would probably cause you to drown. The "w" alliteration in this line enhances the feeling of the motion of the waves, constant and continuous in and out motion which could eventually lead a person to "folly", or madness.