Response To Abortion

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a. A woman during the mid-nineteen forties explains her demise of children she never met. She has gone through life producing children that have never fully formed to be able to give back to her as a mother. She begins with an exact description of a fresh abortion, “The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair” (Brooks, 1945, p. 663). Providing us details of what could have been in her life’s unique situation. b. The primary theme of this story is guilt by force. She, the unnamed speaker, has been forced by whom or however to continue to have these devastations that she has been forever placed on her is a burden of guilt. C. The author built the theme as a mother who has ended her pregnancies, and she explains much of the story trying to figure out how to describe her non-existent …show more content…

LANGUAGE PATTERNS a. The language patterns in this story are switched between remembrance and guilt. For example, “Though why should I whine, Whine that the crime was other than mine? Since anyhow you are dead” (Brooks, 1945, p. 663) another powerful moment. The speaker puts it all out and refers to her abortion as a "crime." There's no uncertainty in her language here. This poem's intense, an unnamed speaker reflects about the abortions she's had. Abortion is both personal and radical, and that makes the language around it even more charged. IV. RHYME PATTERNS a. The first stanza begins with rhymed verses as the speaker reflects on the lives that never was. In the second, the rhymes are not created for several lines. The rhymes return in the second stanza, but with more passion. In the third stanza, the speaker does not include any rhyme to convey any desertion. “Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye” (Brooks, 1945, p. 663). The rhyme order of this stanza begins the poem sympathetically and says only a helping of the grief and mourning that directs the rest of the poem. The order of the rhyme arrangement repeats the speaker’s failing emotions. V.

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