Summary Of The Mother And It Rainy Last Night

The description of the mother is honest, reflective, and

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

The poem, “Death of a Young Son by Drowning” written by Margaret Atwood was awfully sad and tragic as it described the death of her son and its lasting effect on her. The speaker begins the poem by describing how her son was brave, adventurous and led with success. However, the mood of the poem quickly changes as the young boy slipped off the bank and into the water. From there, the boy struggles in the water before eventually drowning. As he is pulled out of the water the mother realizes that all the plans that she had for the future are over and that a part of her has died alongside her son. Atwood uses multiple types of figurative language that gives this poem a sense of realism and really shows the reader the devastation and heartache that occurs after the loss of a child.

Furthermore, Sharon Olds and Molly Peacock convey the Tone of the poems to describe the characters emotions. In “Parents' Day” Olds stated “To see that woman arriving and to know

TS - In the poem, “Mother who gave me Life”, Harwood explores the memory of motherhood as a quintessential part of being human.

"The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a sorrowful, distressing poem about a mother who has experienced numerous abortions. While reading the poem, you can feel the pain, heartache, distress and grief she is feeling. She is both remorseful and regretful; nevertheless, she explains that she had no other alternative. It is a sentimental and heart wrenching poem where she talks about not being able to experience or do things with the children that she aborted -- things that people who have children often take for granted. Perhaps this poem is a reflection of what many women in society are feeling.

A Mother to her Waking Infant was first published in 1790; the poem is narrated by a mother who is focusing her thoughts and words towards her newborn baby. The poem is directed solely at the child of the title, with the mothers words starting as the child awakes, Now in thy dazzling half-oped eye. Joanna Baillie uses a number of techniques to mirror and represent a new mothers emotions and affections for her child. The meter and form of the poem help to emphasise these emotions and the various other uses of language contribute to the effect of the piece on a reader.

The second stanza, is the turning point of her whole journey, of coming out of the naïve world

The poem “The Mother” written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945, is a poem that focuses on the immeasurable losses a woman experiences after having an abortion. The poems free verse style has a mournful tone that captures the vast emotions a mother goes through trying to cope with the choices she has made. The author writes each stanza of the poem using a different style, and point of view, with subtle metaphors to express the speaker’s deep struggle as she copes with her abortions. The poem begins with, “Abortions will not let you forget” (Brooks 1), the first line of the poem uses personification to capture your attention. The title of the poem has the reader’s mindset centered around motherhood, but the author’s expertise with the opening line, immediately shifts your view to the actual theme of the poem. In this first line the speaker is telling you directly, you will never forget having an abortion. Brooks utilizes the speaker of the poem, to convey that this mother is pleading for forgiveness from the children she chose not to have.

In the poem, "metaphors" the author makes it seem as though she is just a carrier for the child and that she has no say in the matter of her being pregnant. While in the poem, "The Mother" the author makes it seem as though she

In this stylistic analysis of the lost baby poem written by Lucille Clifton I will deal mainly with two aspects of stylistic: derivation and parallelism features present in the poem. However I will first give a general interpretation of the poem to link more easily the stylistic features with the meaning of the poem itself.

In a world in which abortion is considered either a woman's right or a sin against God, the poem "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks gives a voice to a mother lamenting her aborted children through three stanzas in which a warning is given to mothers, an admission of guilt is made, and an apology to the dead is given. The poet-speaker, the mother, as part of her memory addresses the children that she "got that [she] did not get" (2). The shift in voice from stanza to stanza allows Brooks to capture the grief associated with an abortion by not condemning her actions, nor excusing them; she merely grieves for what might have been. The narrator's longing and regret over the children she will never have is highlighted by the change in tone

The contextual research of Shel Silverstein helped me to understand why Silverstein wrote such a book. His father was not a positive parental figure in his life, while his own daughter who he did not spend too much time with, died at the age of 11. His regrets and sadness for not being there for his child seem to shine through his sad ending of a child and parent relationship. The poem reminded me of the novel “Keep Holding On” as it also features a single mother who makes multiple sacrifices to keep her daughter healthy, but she is taken for granted by her daughter who is bullied due to her lack of clothing etc. The connection helps me to understand how society, who wishes Noelle to look a certain way, changed Noelle’s outlook on her mother.

The use of grammar and diction indicates that the mother was not very educated, and probably received little, if any, secondary education. The pretentious use of the phrase “’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.” (16) shows the improper use of grammar by the mother. The use of anaphora is shown multiple times throughout the poem. When the mother is describing to her son the difficult times in her life she say “And splinters, / And boards torn up, / And places with no carpet on the floor-“(4-6), showing that her problems were one after another.

The use of simile, in the first stanza, allows the comparison of the speaker, at the age of five, to an ordinary object or game of the abuser’s life. This degradation of the speaker to a mere object for pleasure reveals the abuse caused by patriarchal traditions of belittling women. Furthermore, the lack of capitalisation throughout the stanza, evident in the line “i was five” (6), demonstrates the speaker’s continuous feelings of abase associated with her experience, which further