The three prior assumptions I made during and after reading the poem, “The Mother”, I assumed that it was going to be a simple poem that I can easily understand and know exactly what I am reading about. ”
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get, ” Through this sentence I knew what I would be reading and thought to myself “I have a clear vision and explanation about what the meaning of this poem would be.” However as I continued to read I fell off track and thought to deeply and assumed that maybe it won’t be a simple poem that I would understand and that there could be another meaning that I was unaware about. However as the lines as the poem continued, ”
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?—
Since anyhow you are dead.” After reading I understood this poem clear after not overthinking and reading with a clear mind with deep understanding because I struggle with interpreting poems.
