Mrs. Locano
AP Literature- 4
6 October 2016
Poetry Response #3 -The Mother
Gwendolyn Brooks
poem “The Mother”, really opened my eyes to a lot. For starters what’s being
said in this poem is quite sad, here you have the speaker telling you the perks
of abortions and basically how the situation is looked upon on when woman
decide to have abortions. I personally like this poem because it speaks so many
volumes. Brooks knew exactly what she was doing when she decided to write this
poem, it’s such an eye opening. Personally I think it would have people
reconsidering abortions simply because they’re taking away opportunities that
never got a chance. The speaker kinds of plays with the people’s conscious by these
lines Abortions will not let you forget /You will remember the children you got
that you did not get” (1-2). So here you have this powerful line stating how
once you get an abortion it’s something that sticks with you forever also not
to mention how you conceived this child but yet didn’t even give it a chance on
living to see what it would of became.
Honestly out of
Brooks poems this one is the one that I read more than once to really get the
gist of it, I didn’t understand it completely until I read it a 3rd
time. That’s when I realized what an amazing poem this was and how she put so
much effort into it. The speaker indeed makes it emotional even touching my
heart when in line 18 how they say, “If I stole your births and your names/”,
not only did this line give me chills but just really had me thinking thoroughly
on this topic, if our parents gave us a chance why not give this innocent baby
a chance as well? If you didn’t want the baby, why not protect yourself more? I
defiantly thought about these things when I read the poem, I just love how
Brooks never once took it upon herself to bash anyone that had a abortion/
wanted to consider it but just gave them something to really think about when
they want to do it. Brooks shows that in the end whether you do it or not at
the end of the day you’re the mother and this lives on your conscious but what I
got from this poem is, is it really worth taking a baby’s life before it
begins.. Just a food for thought.
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