The Adoption Papers by Jackie Kay is a poem which could be described as a love poem. Through the emotional – and as well physical- pains of childbirth we are taken on an intense journey that begins with love and ends with love. Kay not only succeeds to display the love through the poem, but also shows the downsides of love and the emotional turmoil that lurks in the shadows of love.
The Adoption Papers takes the traditional, dictionary definition of love between an adult man and a women and makes it look insignificant compared to the love that is shared between not only a parent and a child; but a mother and a daughter. It could be argued from Kay’s point of view that she sees the relationship of a mother and daughter as perhaps the most important and influential over any other love that exists in the world. This is signified through the structure in which three different female personas take us through their personal experience with the issue of adaption.
The first female not only deals with the issue of adoption but also the issue of infertility when she finds out she cannot have a baby. She is an extremely maternal figure which Kay shows through the word choice of “always” signifying that the woman cannot think of a time when she didn’t want to have a child. And she does not just want a baby of her own, she aches for the …show more content…
An extremely maternal and infertile women who wants a baby more than anything in the world, fits perfectly with the woman who has a baby, but possibly does not want it at that point or perhaps cannot provide the care and facilities it needs. Even though adoption is “something scandalous” and it seemed at the time society was against it, the mothers both went through with it because they both shared the same driving force that pushed them forward: love. Love overcomes any outside opinions that may be harsh and prejudiced, the want to love or be loved is stronger than any
The Adoption Papers takes the traditional, dictionary definition of love between an adult man and a women and makes it look insignificant compared to the love that is shared between not only a parent and a child; but a mother and a daughter. It could be argued from Kay’s point of view that she sees the relationship of a mother and daughter as perhaps the most important and influential over any other love that exists in the world. This is signified through the structure in which three different female personas take us through their personal experience with the issue of adaption.
The first female not only deals with the issue of adoption but also the issue of infertility when she finds out she cannot have a baby. She is an extremely maternal figure which Kay shows through the word choice of “always” signifying that the woman cannot think of a time when she didn’t want to have a child. And she does not just want a baby of her own, she aches for the …show more content…
An extremely maternal and infertile women who wants a baby more than anything in the world, fits perfectly with the woman who has a baby, but possibly does not want it at that point or perhaps cannot provide the care and facilities it needs. Even though adoption is “something scandalous” and it seemed at the time society was against it, the mothers both went through with it because they both shared the same driving force that pushed them forward: love. Love overcomes any outside opinions that may be harsh and prejudiced, the want to love or be loved is stronger than any