The Unplanned Child Analysis

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“The Planned Child”is a poem about a girl who wishes that she had been conceived unplanned, rather than planned. “Conceived in heat, in haste, by mistake, in love,in sex, on cardboard, the little x on the rising line that did not fall again.” (Lines 6-9) The second paragraph of the poem the girl is sharing a glass of wine with a friend when the girl realizes the affection with which she was considered far exceeds her desire to have been imagined in “haste” or “by mistake”. Sharon Olds uses tone and attitude to describe the speakers attempt to deal with feeling unloved leading to wish that she was unplanned. In the first set of the poem the speaker doesn’t like the fact that her mother planned to conceive her. Sharon Olds, the speaker tone

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