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gwendolyn brooks, the first Pulitzer Prize winning black writer and Poet Laureate, has often been regarded as one among the African-American poets who imprinted her indelible marks in the field of literature.... All these clearly indicate the way the poet is protesting against suburban ladies who go into the ghetto to give occasional aid or a black mother who has had an abortion (Biography of gwendolyn brooks).... The poem has written as a remembrance to the children aborted and the things that the mother misses....
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Essay
In the first one-third of the piece, gwendolyn brooks initiated rather with a straight affecting cut and gathers all within a sharp word the necessary mood by which the theme must be conveyed.... This review discusses the poem 'the mother' where offers an insight to women who might have gone through difficult times at overcoming the incident and forgiving themselves which keeps them from moving forward.... Since 'the mother' creates the needed attitude toward guilt and regret....
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Literature review
“Revenge, at first thought sweet, is bitter.... Before long it recoils back on itself.... ?? -John Milton, Paradise Lost The quote presents the popular view of revenge as longed-for act of justice one brings upon the offender.... The avenger generally spends much time and effort thinking the act of revenge and plotting certain actions....
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Essay
“The Mother” by gwendolyn brooks Gwendolyn Brooks must have begun “The Mother” with second person view for the necessity of realization outside oneself through the ambiguity in using ‘You' as if to generate a resonance of accusation somewhere.... brooks attempts at the horrible memories to operate on carrying a sorrowful burden toward a number of wonderful possibilities if one had not thrown the chance of completing her motherhood and the phrases of love in the middle make it all the more excruciating....
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Book Report/Review
The paper "Attitudes towards Motherhood in The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks and Giving Birth by Margaret Atwood" states that from Atwood's narration, it appears that both the women are one and have the same body.... Attitudes towards Motherhood in "The Mother" by gwendolyn brooks and "Giving Birth" by Margaret Atwood 'The Mother' by gwendolyn brooks is a poem while 'Giving Birth' by Margaret Atwood is a short story.... In 'The Mother', gwendolyn brooks informs about a woman who is not a mother but the one who always aborts her children....
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Essay
The author of the paper compares and contrasts the attitudes towards motherhood, proposing why the differences and the similarities that are identified exist in the two stories "The mother" authored by gwendolyn brooks and "Giving Birth" by Margaret Atwood.... The Mother' by gwendolyn brooks and 'Giving Birth' by Margaret Atwood The poem, The Mother indicates about the feelings of a woman who has aborted her children.... (the mother) This stanza indicates that she loved her children but aborted them on the basis of the problems that she faced....
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Assignment
the mother, who feels the stinging pain at heart for the unborn children and laments their loss, stands for motherhood and love.... In (lines 17- 24) the mother cries out the guilt and pain of abortion; unborn children are robbed off their basic rights to live and do other common activities during a lifetime; 3.... (lines 30,31) show how the mother tries to convince herself of the abortions; the first part of the poem addresses the mother and the later part addresses the child....
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Essay
he poem the mother is sad because of her failure to execute her roles effectively as a mother.... Brooks portrays a feeling of remorse, longing sadness, and incomplete destinies that the mother had hoped to achieve.... In the third line of the poem's second stanza the mother is sad because she cannot breastfeed the babies since they are dead.... the mother also expresses sorrow and justifiable reasons as if yearning for forgiveness....
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