The Grieving of The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks :: Essay on Gwendolyn Brooks

The M different, by Gwendolyn Brooks, is about a mother who has experienced a number of abortions and now has remorse. You can feel the remorse she is going finished when reading the poesy. She is regretful, yet explains that she had no other choice. It is a heartfelt poem where she talks bout how she exit not be able to do certain things for the children that she aborted. This poem may be a reflection of what umteen other women argon dealing with.   The first stanza starts off with Abortions will not let you forget, which sounds like the woman is talk in general terms. She is talking about how future experiences will never take place. Things like You will never wind up the sucking-thumb or scuttle off the ghosts that come, are some of the many that will not be done. In a way, the women being told this are reminded of the pain they are going through.   In the befriend stanza, the woman is talking about her pain and loss. In I bugger off heard in the voices of the win d the voices of my dim killed children, she is haunted by her admit childrens faint cries that she hears in her mind. She then makes the transition from telling the reader to explaining to her children wherefore she did what she did. It feels as though she cant control her emotions and finally breaks down. She forgets about the reader and focuses on her children. She is asking for some understanding when she says, Believe that in my deliberateness I was not deliberate. . . . Though why should I whine, she asks, Whine that the crime was other than mine.   She feels that she did what she had to do. She belike couldnt handle having kids at the time because of her situation, whatever it was, so she had an abortion. She probably didnt think it was a crime, but society has made her believe it is and she feels guilty. She tries to sweep it off when she says, Since you are dead, but then admonishes herself by euphemizing the meaning by saying, or rather, or instead, you were never made.   In the third stanza, she picks up where she left in the second stanza, but this time she tries to figure out what she did.