Lucille Clifton, author of the poem “The Lost Baby”, describes in a very intensified manner about a young mother’s loss. She has the guilt of losing her unborn child which, she didn’t tell how she lost her baby. But from the first sentence “the time i dropped your almost body down”, it seems she might had abortion or some tragic accident. In the second part of the poem, she imagines that her baby would be born in the winter. In the last part, she says that if she does not treat her living children in a right manner, she wants punishment. The poem is very depressing according to me, Clifton convicts herself for the loss of her baby, and she portrays an image of how she lost the baby in the first section. In the middle part, she justifies the
