There It Is by Jayne Cortez

I gave just finished reading "There It Is" by Jayne Cortez. This poem expresses her true rebellious frame of mind. Through its simplicity and basic frame builds a very straight forward portrayal of her point. Upon reading I felt as if I were a listener watching her speak in a protest. Though, for my taste, this poem was a little TOO simple, I do like how I did not have to go digging way deep into the poem comprehend it.
What definately stood out to me was her use of a base frame for the structure of her points, it's almost as if she's slightly touching on the concept of repition in a way, when she says we will wear "the exaggerated look of captivity the stylized look of submission the bizarre look of suicide the dehumanized look of fear and the decomposed look of repression" if we submit ourselves. She just keeps listing what can potentially happen. This is where her more detailed language comes in; she does this to emphasize her ferocity of her point and to build more of a righteous feel in her protest.

"The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks

I have just finished reading "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks. This poem is a very very controversal, personal, and emotional piece of work due to the speakers bias on her sorrow for her abortion. Though we have no background evidence as to why the speaker got an abortion I get the vibe that she is in deep regret for her decision especially due to her frequent use of the words "killed" and "dead". It is almost she feels as if she is a killer when she says "I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children. " That is a very deep and depressing line; she is not one to soon forget what has happened and is often haunted by it.
Personally, the one line that stood out the most to me that made me right away see through the metaphor and understand what this poem was REALLY about was the line "The singers and workers that never handled the air." The speaker is describing all the success and professions her would be child COULD have been, but her child never got a chance to live, to breath the air. Air represented life in that line, we need air to breath, we need to breath to live.
Overall, this is probably one of my favorite poems I have read this semester thus far. The use of metaphor is superb and the meaning of the poem is not shrouded TOO much in the metaphor to confuse the reader.