The Real Mother Goose Analysis

In the book “The Real Mother Goose”, there are multiple examples of bias throughout the entire children’s book. First, let us discuss invisibility bias. Throughout the book, nowhere does it speak of gay or lesbian couples. For example, in the poem “Why May Not I Love Johnny”, it speaks of a family consisting of a mother and father, it is assumed that the speaker does not know Johnny’s family (45). In the work entitled “Saturday, Sunday”, a girl declares on Saturday she will make herself pretty and presentable, then on Sunday her “love” will come. Assuming she has not meet her “love” yet, she still assumes it will be a he without question; “On Sunday morning/ my love will come in. / When he will marry me/ with a gold ring” (69). Also, …show more content…
For example, in the poem “The Hunter of Reigate” it talks of a man who went hunting and desired to jump the fence. The owner of the grounds told the man to “Go round” because he would never jump over the fence (25). This leaves the reader questioning the purpose of jumping the fence and if his intentions were pure. Also, in the poem “Little Polly Flinders” it states a little girl who was punished for trying to warm her feet (26). The reader has no idea why the child was cold or why she was so close to the fire that it was destroying her new clothes. The child’s true intentions are unclear from this small …show more content…
A good example of that is shown in the book through the poem, “Old Woman, Old Woman” (66). It is not put in an aside part in the text but rather inserted the word “old” every time “woman” was mentioned. This information in unnecessary in every poem in the book. Also, it is shown through the specific identification of “wives and maids” in the poem “Candle-Saving” (85). There was no need to specifically point out the women and not the men in his