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The motherWith its title purposefully written in all lowercase letters to emphasize humility, "the mother" is a poem about a woman who acknowledges the children she would have had if she had decided not to...
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The motherI think that Brooks is deliberate in not rhyming all of the lines in the poem. Consider the first line where we see a breaking of the rhyme scheme: I have heard in the voices of the wind the...
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The motherThe speaker in Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “the mother” is a woman who seems to have had multiple abortions but who also seems to be haunted by the choices she made to abort her “children”...
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The motherI think that the setting is a modern and urban condition. Perhaps, using Brooks' own literary background might help here: The city is an important and recurring symbol in Brooks’s work. She has...
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The motherIn her poem, "The Mother," Brooks is skilled at bringing out the complexity in the title character. Brooks is not too keen on making judgments or creating a setting where arbitrary and simple...
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The motherI think that one of the most important features in Brooks' poem is the vision of the subject. The way in which the mother's character is developed in the poem is a powerful one. Brooks creates a...
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The mother"The Mother" is Brooks' portrait of a poor woman who has experienced the challenging conditions of material reality and psychological condition. In the poem, Brooks pays attention to the...
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The motherThanks for the clarification! What I mean here when I talk about structuralism is an approach that looks at a large number of stories (or other short pieces) and seeks to identify the overarching...
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The motherI see food imagery in only one line of Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The Mother." That's line 10: The speaker is full of regret that she will never "Return for a snack of them, with gobbling...