The Planned Child
“ A mother might give birth to a child, but before that a child gives birth to a mother”. The poem named "The Planned Child" by Sharon Old is a commendation to parents who wish a child so much as to plan for conceiving. This poem is of a women who knows that her mother and father went through lot of efforts to plan her conception.
The first stanza draws the picture of disgust of the speaker of being a planned child. The speaker of the poem considers her conception as an unemotional and meaningless. She doesn’t like that her mother planned to conceive her. “She had taken a cardboard out of his shirt from the laundry…” “…and made a chart of the month and put her temperature on it, rising and falling to know the day to make
“ A mother might give birth to a child, but before that a child gives birth to a mother”. The poem named "The Planned Child" by Sharon Old is a commendation to parents who wish a child so much as to plan for conceiving. This poem is of a women who knows that her mother and father went through lot of efforts to plan her conception.
The first stanza draws the picture of disgust of the speaker of being a planned child. The speaker of the poem considers her conception as an unemotional and meaningless. She doesn’t like that her mother planned to conceive her. “She had taken a cardboard out of his shirt from the laundry…” “…and made a chart of the month and put her temperature on it, rising and falling to know the day to make