The Mother

Gwendolyn Brooks poesy, The Mother is an introspective look into the internal struggle of a charr who has had an abortion. The poem is very powerful and conveys a gigantic array of feelings and sentiments on the subject such as regret, love, and disappointment in ones self. The poem is largely booming due to its tone, which is achieved through the personification and choice of diction. To take down with, lines one and two state the general root of the poem. Abortions leave behind not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.The initiative stanza of the poem begins with the introduction to the mystify and her plight. The first line introduces plainly the topic of the poem. Abortion, although discussed and debated daily, is considered to be a very personal and a good deal private see in ones life. The second line confirms that this is a personal account of the Mother. The personification gives one more condition to feel empathy for the woman who is telling her story via the poem. Titling the work take is an interesting tactic, as the topic of the poem is abortion.Perhaps this was through in order to create a tension and sadness between the get under ones skin and the abortions she is speaking of. There is also a great subroutine of the word you. Brooks is writing to those who reach had abortions or will have abortions and the things they must deal with. From this point Brooks writes of the joys and struggles of motherhood that the woman will never experience. For example You will never neglect or beat them, or silence or buy with a sweet (Brooks 6,7).In this segment Brooks uses enjambment to push the idea that thither is no longer a them. The action of thumb sucking, which most children experience, is referenced in a proneness way. The mother feels sadness knowing she will never correct the action. In the line, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. Brooks gives a strong image of the pre-baby form versus the vainglorious form the child would have later in life. This is an interesting tactic, as it contrasts an inhuman and human form. very much fetuses are not referred to as living beings, and Brooks is bringing light to that conversation.The first stanza references so many actions that many mothers find mundane, but the mother who has never experienced them, treats them as treasured and severely confused moments. The second stanza focuses on the pain and loss of the woman. Brooks writes, I have heard in the voices of the sneak the voices of my dim killed children. This is the first line to break the rhyme scheme at bottom the poem. The mother character feels preoccupied by the silent cries of the multiple abortions she has had. Once again Brooks writes of the acts she will never witness, such as marriages, aches, and first breaths.From the perspective of mother, the reader witnesses the ache of regret. In the lines, I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized Your mass there is an interesting idea planted. The word If implies a question in the mother. Perhaps the mother make her decision but society has made her feel the guilt? Although this idea seems largely discounted in the avocation stanza. In line Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate. We are given up a taste of the state of mind the mother possessed when she had her abortion.What is being said is that although abortion was the result, it was done with best intentions. The reader is left to infer that perhaps the woman could not have provided, or talent have been cast out, or any possibility that would have abortion be the prevailing answer. The pursuance lines, Though why should I whine, Whine that the crime was other than mine? tell us that the woman equates her behavior with murder. This poem does not read specifically pro-life or pro-choice, rather, it reads as sympathetic towards the severe decisions that the mother has made and her reflections on whether it was the best decision for her.Another example of the mothers reflection is found within lines 28-31. Brooks writes, Since anyhow you are dead. Or rather, or instead, You were never made. In these lines the reader is confronted with the question, When does life begin? The mother in the poem seems to struggle with this idea. She attaches human feelings and behavior to the unborn, but in the poem often questions their viability. In the last stanza, Brooks leaves us with the sobering lines, Believe me, I loved you all. Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you, All.These lines clear up any confusion as to what the mother feels towards the unborn fetuses. Although she never knew them, and it was her decision not to have them, she still feels the emotional attachment that any mother might. These lines answer the question as to why the woman is referred to as mother. THe woman possesses the maternal sense of s tark(prenominal) love that she has felt for the fetuses, referred and her longing to be with them. There is a strong power in the use of ending on the word, All. Although the mother has had multiple abortions, she equates it with the same longing and regret as just one.