The Mother Comments

Powerful poem on a very sensitive topic So brilliantly presented and expressed.

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. Soo verý true. abortons is a sin against humanity and against your own self. tony

nice poem i really like it.This poem remembers the love of my mother,

heart touching poem.thank you

This poem touch my heart

I will always regret. Those souls torn from their Mothers wombs, where now are they.

It moved my heart. Thanks

Thankyou

Thank you very much

a poem beautyful and deply, but that sad me!

I like the Google

I wonder if the people who commented on this in 2004 come back to see these comments.

this really inspierd me

The poem is so much touchy. Emotional as it describes the pain of separation of a mother from its to-be-born child. A high level of thoughts and feelings embedded in this poem. Loved reading it. Thanks for sharing.

It's really powerful poem, It has addressed to greatest problem in the world.

How beautifully sad, truly honest, of the heart.

In some parts of the world the word abortion means what we in the US call a miscarriage. It may have been that way here back when this was written.

Shelby, I think the poem tells us how profoundly impossible it is to understand abortion. She is able to describe to us each paradox involved: from thinking we have the ability to make the decision to the inability to know whether or not it is a child; whether or not anything was created and could have died. It must be that something was created, how else can the speaker be a mother, why would she love something, but still, it is not a child, it is a 'pulp'; we can only get questions we will never be able to answer. Also, Roe v Wade did not legalize abortion, it took that decision-making capability away from the States and made it a Federal decision. You should read the history behind it, it wasn't very good for women when they had to obtain 'back-alley' abortions from 'wayward' doctors or resort to doing it themselves. Plainly, abortion has always been and presumably will always be within the realm of possibilities for pregnant women, the question we can answer is whether or not it can be done safely and if it should be governments' decision. Finally, I am not 'for abortion', I am simply not able to take away the power from any woman regarding her decision (though Brooks tells us you can never really make that decision and understand it) . I would not have an abortion if I found myself in that situation, but I cannot even understand that decision, and I don't and can't judge anyone for what they choose. She will always be a mother though, somehow. I also do not feel that it should be a question that government answers. -Christina

IMMATURE COMMENT KAITLYN BUT WHEN CAN WE SAY.....THE POEM WAS WRITTEN SO BEAUTIFULLY...AS A 16 YEAR OLD, READING THIS POEM HAS HELPED ME TO UNDERSTAND ABORTION AND WHY IT IS OFTEN PERCEIVED AS A NEGATIVE THING....BEFORE THIS I WAS FOR ABORTION NO MATTER WHAT, BUT AFTER READING THE POEM I'VE COME TO A SOLID CONCLUSION THAT ABORTION SHOULD NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN LEGALIZED MAY GWENDOLYN'S SOUL REST IN PEACE WISH SHE WAS STILL HERE TO WRITE MORE BEAUTIFUL POETRY ~OUT~

This poem was wrote in the 1940's. There was a completly different set of reasons for an abortion at that time and place, and that should be considered before writing a negative review based only on the subject on not the writing. Also, Gwendolyn Brooks did not have an abortion herself. I think this poem is amazingly wrote.