Every decision is followed by consequences. These consequences can be good or bad and lead to a happy or sad feeling. In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “The Mother”, there is both a feeling of happiness and guilt to a decision that is made. The author tells about how you cannot forget the consequences that are a result to a decision that you make. Gwendolyn Brooks uses literary devices such as imagery, personification, rhyme, and repetition to show how one person feels about a decision that they made.
The author uses imagery in lines three and four when she says “The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, the singers and workers that never handled the air.” The mother is thinking about what her children could have been if she had not aborted …show more content…
“That never handled the air” is talking about how they were never born and did not get to experience life.
Personification is used in line eleven when the author states, “I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children.” Personification is described as the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. In this quote the voices in the wind is being personified. The wind comes and
Rogers 2 goes just like her children came and went. When she says she head the voices in the wind she means that her children were only there for a short time and are forever gone now.
When the author says, “Though why should I whine, whine that the crime was other than mine?— Since anyhow you are dead. Or rather, or instead, you were never made. But that too, I am afraid, is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.” she is using the literary device called rhyme. The mother is going back and forth as to whether or not her child was alive or not. When Brooks says, “It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried”, she is
The author uses imagery in lines three and four when she says “The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, the singers and workers that never handled the air.” The mother is thinking about what her children could have been if she had not aborted …show more content…
“That never handled the air” is talking about how they were never born and did not get to experience life.
Personification is used in line eleven when the author states, “I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children.” Personification is described as the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure. In this quote the voices in the wind is being personified. The wind comes and
Rogers 2 goes just like her children came and went. When she says she head the voices in the wind she means that her children were only there for a short time and are forever gone now.
When the author says, “Though why should I whine, whine that the crime was other than mine?— Since anyhow you are dead. Or rather, or instead, you were never made. But that too, I am afraid, is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said? You were born, you had body, you died. It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.” she is using the literary device called rhyme. The mother is going back and forth as to whether or not her child was alive or not. When Brooks says, “It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried”, she is