Analysis Of Gwendolyn Brooks The Mother

In the poem, "the mother", by Gwendolyn Brooks, the speaker writes "that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate" (l. 21). In these lines she is talking about how she feels troubled by her decisions to abort her "children" that were brought up in the second line of the poem. These decisions were "deliberate" in the sense that she did choose to abort these children. She is taking responsibility for her deliberate choice to abort. However, in this deliberate choice, she still says that she was not deliberate. I think what she is expressing here is that even though she deliberately did have an abortion, she did not mean to deliberately kill her children. It seems as if she did not have any other choice to make. She deliberately chose to