Lament of the Land

Write from the perspective of the homeland itself witnessing the mass suffering, starvation and emigration.

Unusually, this prompt asks you to personify Ireland itself in the times of the Potato Famine. How does ‘she’ feel as she witnesses her children dying and leaving? This presents a unique exploration of land and nature as sentiment beings, and how disasters affect not just humans, but the very soul of a place.

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