Poetry can help change the overall view on the way people think, and help make aware the reality of a certain situation. Poetry can leave an influential impression and for the poem, “The Slave Mother,” Frances Ellen Watkins Harper did just that. She writes heart-wrenching lines about an African American mother and her son. This poem is informative and insightful because, the author used many forms of imagery to embody many different feelings for Americans in the nineteenth century. This paper will review the meaning of Harper’s poem, as well as her argument towards slavery, and will evaluate the quality of her writing and focus on any areas of weakness found within her work. This section contains a short summary about the meaning of, “The
