Compare And Contrast The Mother And On My First Daughter

Poetry is a literary work that expresses feelings and ideas, the purpose of this poetry comparison essay is to discuss the setting and situation, the tone, and the speaker and how they relate to the poems “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “On My First Daughter” by Ben Jonson. These poems differ in many ways and they are the same in many ways. The purpose of the two poems is to discuss the setting and situation. In “The Mother” the setting takes place in 1945 and talks about the feeling of abortions and how it affects the mother's life. I’m sure that no one wants to have an abortion, but does that stop them? No some people have abortions because they can’t deal with the thought of having a child. Others have them because they are unable to
How mothers feel after they abort their children and how they adjust to it. In the poem you can see the guilt behind the fact that they aborted their kids. In both poems the authors portray a sense of sadness for the things going on in each story. The authors show the feelings and emotions behind each story and a broaden way to explain it. The purpose of these two poems is to discuss the speaker. In the poem “The Mother” the speaker talks in an first person point of view and says everything clearly, the beginning is very striking. In the poem “On My First Daughter” the speaker talks in a second person point of view, the speaker has a sense of grief throughout the story. “Yumiko, YAMAZAKI, and KATO Ryoko. "Support for women during the subsequent childbirth after losing a child due to childbirth related malpractice --Relevant factors and midwives' awareness in the desirable care of women--." Journal Of Japan Academy Of Midwifery 31, no. 1 (January 2017): 88-97. CINAHL with Full Text, EBSCOhost (accessed March 11, 2018).” ties in with my article because it talks about losing a child and the feelings
Close to the end of each poem the speakers come to reality of what has happened and learn to accept it. Jonson accepts the fact that his daughter is gone to heaven and brooks comes to contact about the aborted children. Jonson states many things about heaven which lessnes his pain about his daughter because he knows thats where his daughter is going. Now in the mother it is a bit different but the author still comes to contact about the fact that the abortions happened and it is nothing they can do to change the fact of it. “Xu, Yao, et al. "Psychological and social consequences of losing a child in a natural or human-made disaster: A review of the evidence." Asia-Pacific Psychiatry 5, no. 4 (December 2013): 237-248. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed March 11, 2018).” , this article relates to both of my topics because it talks about losing a child in natural or human-made disaster. Meaning that a child has been lost or could have been possibly aborted in the process. This is a good article because it ties in with both of my poems in different ways. In conclusion, the reasons these two poems connect to me and the significance behind