Mother Doesn 'T Want A Dog'

Both Mother Who Gave Me Life by Gwen Harwood and Woman to Child by Judith Wright, explore the bonds shared between mother and child. While both poems explore the same themes, each poet uses different techniques in doing so. Woman to Child is from the point of view of a mother. Although the poet has used the personal pronouns ‘I’ and ‘me’, the poem is not from Wrights point of view, rather, from every woman’s, as majority of women have experienced the intimate experience of becoming a mother. Like Woman to Child, Mother Who Gave Me Life also uses personal pronouns, but unlike Woman to Child, Mother Who Gave Me Life is a personal elegy for Harwood’s mother.

As Kingsolver’s novel begins, she introduces many families and some of their faults. She first does this by introducing the narrator’s father, who “...told Mama to never pull anything cute like getting pregnant”

The grandmother has unconditional love for her cat which makes her not be able to leave the cat when she should just leave it at home to make the family happy. The grandmother displays the annoyance that her family finds in her when

In the beginning of the poem the mother writes

Shortly after, the family is about to set off for Florida. After a brief conversation, Bailey forbids his mother from bringing the cat along for the ride. Once again, the Author expresses her view of her self-absorbed, callous mother through the grandmother. Going against her son’s orders, she decides to bring the cat anyways, for fear it may miss her too much or, in a freak accident, asphyxiate itself on on the gas burners. An utterly selfish action for nothing more than getting what she wants, just because she wants it. This action would prove to be disastrous in the end, showing the self destructive behavior of a woman unfit to be called a “mother” by O’Connor.

“The Old Dictionary” is a short story by Lydia Davis that uses a seamless syntax structure and an uneasy tone to successfully show the thought process of one parent who is realizing the effects of having too many obligations and being heavily depended on. In Davis’s story, readers meet a troubled parent whose task-oriented personality seeps into other areas of life to skew what should be most important. It begins with a description of the Old Dictionary; the narrator is concerned they are giving this book better treatment than their son. As the story progresses, the narrator compares the way they treat other living beings, such as the dog and plants, with the treatment of his or her son and the dictionary. They express the stressful feelings associated with caring for other things and being depended on. The story follows the narrator’s thoughts as they try to discover the underlying causes of their mismatched priorities, and experience an internal battle of why their primary concerns for their son seem less substantial than concerns for the Old Dictionary.

In the conceptualization of women as pets, youth and small size appear to play a determinant role in the encoding of the metaphor, implying immaturity (the lack of age involves inexperience) and helplessness (unlike other animals, pets need to be looked after by people). Furthermore, the physical surroundings of pets, whose whole life spins around the house, might imply the idea of domesticity. This confinement to the domestic arena is particularly remarkable in the case of bird names, since birds are kept in

Her father neglects what she dislikes because it is the one thing that he loves, and it breaks the connection of their father-daughter relationship which ultimately creates tension. Moving forward, the loss of her mother adds to the tension between her and her remaining parent. In the text, the author writes, “Mom always had after-school projects waiting for me... I guess these projects were chores, but they were fun, too. Now when I come home, I’ve got to sweep, fold towels, or scrub the bathroom sink.

The poem “My Mother’s Face” by Brenda Serotte depicts the difficulty of a mother and daughter with a close bond trying to cope with a difficult situation of becoming an adult. “My Mother’s face” talks about the women’s state of affairs, the words used in the poem indicate that the mother is going through a difficult situation and the speaker can feel it through her close observation and on her own accord. The poem basically highlights the human aging process and the difficulty for a mother to realize the fact that her beloved daughter doesn’t need her anymore. The daughter sees the mother’s reflection and passes it for her own, feeling empathetic to the sorrow being shown on her mother's face. The daughter now realizes that with time,

The narrator finds this cat to be out of place, and she uses the sight of this cat to take her text in a different direction. Losing her train of thought is an exercise in allowing the reader to experience what it might feel like to be a woman writer. Although the narrator goes on to make a valuable point about the atmosphere at her luncheon, she has lost her original point. Women, who so often lack a room of their own and the time to write, cannot compete against the men who are not forced to struggle for such basic necessities.

“‘I was so lonely, she’d say. You have no idea how lonely I was. And I had friends, I was a lucky one, but I was lonely anyway.’ I admired my mother in some

"The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a sorrowful, distressing poem about a mother who has experienced numerous abortions. While reading the poem, you can feel the pain, heartache, distress and grief she is feeling. She is both remorseful and regretful; nevertheless, she explains that she had no other alternative. It is a sentimental and heart wrenching poem where she talks about not being able to experience or do things with the children that she aborted -- things that people who have children often take for granted. Perhaps this poem is a reflection of what many women in society are feeling.

The poem “Mother Doesn’t Want a Dog” written by Judith Viorst 1931 expresses a conversation she had with her mother regarding the problems of owning a dog. She utilizes rhyming and imagery throughout the poem as well as projecting a light hearted tempo. The poem expresses all of the problems that her mother has with how a dog disturbs the cleanliness, discipline and interruptions to daily life to the mother. The first paragraph describes how the mother has had a bad experience because she feels that all dogs smell. She also has not been around a dog that is trained or is just not obedient because she says they won’t sit even if you yell at them.

The poem “The Mother” written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945, is a poem that focuses on the immeasurable losses a woman experiences after having an abortion. The poems free verse style has a mournful tone that captures the vast emotions a mother goes through trying to cope with the choices she has made. The author writes each stanza of the poem using a different style, and point of view, with subtle metaphors to express the speaker’s deep struggle as she copes with her abortions. The poem begins with, “Abortions will not let you forget” (Brooks 1), the first line of the poem uses personification to capture your attention. The title of the poem has the reader’s mindset centered around motherhood, but the author’s expertise with the opening line, immediately shifts your view to the actual theme of the poem. In this first line the speaker is telling you directly, you will never forget having an abortion. Brooks utilizes the speaker of the poem, to convey that this mother is pleading for forgiveness from the children she chose not to have.

Her husband is the source of her emotional despair. He leaves her drowning in a storm of indifference and lack of affection. When she goes back to the room she begins to look at herself in the mirror studying her profile feeling unwomanly with short hair. She feels this causes the lack of physical and emotional attention from her husband. When she tells him of all the things she desires, he merely tells her to "shut up." He really doesn’t care about her concerns. She doesn’t defend herself from her husband’s verbal abuse but rather begins to pout like a little girl saying, "I want a cat, I want a cat now. If I cant have long hair or any fun, I can have a cat."(pg57) Suggesting that her husband will not allow her to have long hair or any fun. She wants this cat so bad, in order to hold it, pet it, and love it, symbolizing what she wants physically, to be held and touched, and emotionally, to be loved and cared for.