The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
Paper instructions:
Brooks presents a poem that confronts the controversial topic of abortions by embracing the emotions and thoughts from a mother’s perspective. The focus is on the dramatic situation and how the narrator/speaker’s attitude changes throughout the poem and the possible reasons for her decision. also reference how the poem takes on a rather heated political issue for the times {address it from a socio/historicist point of view} –