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The Mother

            The poem "The Mother" by Gewndolyn Brooks is a poem about loss and about the chance of motherhood. The mother talks about the children that she has loss. She regrets that her children have never had the pleasures that other children experienced. .
             The first sentence sets the tone for the rest of the poem. It creates tension between the mother and abortion. It leaves the reader to wonder what abortion wont let you forget. In line 3 there is contrast between un born babies and potential lives. The next line shows the possibilities that the mother had for her children. In the last two lines there is irony. It shows how much she loves the children. It makes the children alive by creating the image, but it is ironic that you will never leave them. In the next line the author uses the word phrase "dim killed children". This group of words shows that the children were not fully developed.
             The line "I have contracted. I have eased" are the complete opposite of each other. Contract means to have stress while eased is a sign of relief. Line 14 shows her conscience is starting to take over. She wonders has she actually killed a human or not. The author did have an abortion but she wonders if they were truly children. In line 20 "Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate" the women is trying to say that she did not intentionally want to get an abortion. Also her attitude changes from wishing what could have been to apologetic about what she has done. In lines 22 through 26 she categorizes it as a crime, but still avoid blame to a certain degree. In line 23 she tries to blame someone else for her decision. Also in line 24 she almost starts to accept her choice, saying it is to late anyways.
             In the second last stanza of the poem the women she states again what her children missed out on by her decision to have an abortion with giggling and crying. She again questions her descion to have the abortion or not.


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