Friday, May 31, 2019

Guilt and Regret in Gwendolyn Brooks Poem The Mother :: Poetry Analysis

The MotherGwendolyn Brooks poem The mother tells us about a mother who had many abortions. The speaker is addressing her tykeren in explain to them why child could not have them. The internal conflict reveals that she regret killing her children or small pups with a little or with no hair. The speaker tells what she will never do with her children that she killed. She will never neglect, beat, silence, buy with sweet, scuffle off ghosts that come, controlling your luscious sigh/ buckle under for a snack, never hear them giggled, planned, and cried. She also wishes she could see their marriage, aches, stilted, play games, and deaths. She regrets even not giving them a name and breaths. The mother knows that her decision will not let her impart by using the phrase Abortions will not let you forget. The external conflict lets us know that she did not acted alone in her decision making. She mentions believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate and whine that the sh ame was other than mine. The speaker is saying that her decision to have an abortion was not final yet but someone forced her into having it anyway. The external conflict is that she cannot forget the pain on the day of having the abortions. She mentions the contracted and eased that she felt having abortions.

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