Summary Of The Poem By Gwendolyn Brooks

She imagines doing typical motherly things to her children. She wants to be their mother, but the reality is she is not. She gave up her opportunity and subsequently finds herself in a state of deep remorse. She expresses her feelings even deeper with, "I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children… My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck” (RLWA 388). She is haunted in a way by her own children's faint cries that replay in her mind. She then transitions from addressing the reader to now addressing her own dead children. She pleads to them, explaining that she did what she had to do. It seems as if she is begging them for their forgiveness. She pleads, "Believe that in my deliberateness I was not deliberate. . . . Though why should I whine," She

The mother effectively establishes her state of guilt and regret by pleading for forgiveness as she strives to find some kind of closure.

Moreover, The significance of the poem by Gwendolyn brooks as previously noted is the time period in which it was written. What was the year 1945 like? It was the end of an era of war and the beginning of an era into rebuilding. The most significant aspect of the late 1940s in America that still affects America today is the well-known baby boom. The Library of Congress reports, “The overall impact of such public policies was almost incalculable, but it certainly aided returning veterans to better themselves and to begin forming families and having children in unprecedented numbers” (LOC.gov). The johnstons archive which provides statistics for