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Comparing Motherhood In Daystar, In The Park, And Marks

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What is motherhood you ask? Motherhood is many worthy and ruthless things combined into one. When becoming a mom, your child completely becomes your life. You always put them first, even before yourself, no questions asked. You provide for you children and love them unconditionally through the good and bad. Having children puts a lot of weight on your shoulders and you are expected to lift it all. Nobody ever said motherhood was easy, and it’s effortless to see why sometimes. In the poems “Daystar”, “In the Park”, and “Marks” we see many views of how motherhood has affected these women and how hard being a mother can be. In the poem “Daystar”, we see a very tired and drained mom who always finds herself in the backyard trying to find some peace and quiet to think. You can tell she does this a lot because the poem states, “She had an hour, at best, before Liza appeared pouting from the top of the stairs.” The mom knows her children will come looking for her soon so she is trying to get the most out of every minute she gets. She needs some time to herself where everything is about her and not about her unmindful children. The line, “she would open her eyes and think of the place that was hers for an hour-- where she was nothing, pure nothing, in the middle of the day.”, really adds to the longing she has to find herself again. …show more content…

He is living a much richer and fuller life than her because he does not have the children to weigh him down. At the beginning, the poem describes the woman’s clothes as “out of date” to show that she goes with less so her children can have more. The children are her number one priority while she is the last. As the poem comes to an end, the mom says, “They have eaten me alive.” because she has basically gave her life for the children to have

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