Birth By Kwei Ama Aita Interpretation

A Close Reading to Aita’s “Birth” “I was born to a woman/ A lonely woman who made me from a stranger without light”. This line is from Aita’s poem titled “Birth and it shows a baby’s journey from the womb into the world. To many a baby being born is a beautiful and magical event. The birth of a child can have a profound everlasting impact on one’s life. It can be a life changing event that can create a lifelong commitment and learning experience for most parents. What about through a baby’s point of view? No one never really considers how a baby may think or how they must feel when they are being born. In a poem titled Birth, the author expresses a baby’s point of view. In the poem Birth by Kwei Ama Aita, the speaker uses childbirth to present the themes of unawareness, sound and elements as expressed through the birth of a baby.
The first evidence of unawareness Takes place in the second stanza of the poem “In ways unfamiliar and unfound/ I search for voices in ways I cannot/ do not know”. (Lines 5-8) These lines reveal that the speaker is looking for something but she has no knowledge of why she is searching for it. This statement also reveals that the speaker is afraid as she is unaware. Perhaps it is instinct to search and she is looking because something inside instills that she looks it, since the point of view is through a baby’s eyes. Another example of unawareness can be found within the fourth stanza when the speaker says “On her back/ legs apart/ mysteries scream and drown in the roar of the baby moving out of the hands of a mid-wife. This means that the speaker sees the events that are going on within the poem but cannot understand why they are