Wednesday, October 9, 2013
"The Abortion" : My Interpretation
When I read "The Abortion" along with the question about the last part of the poem, I interpreted that the man didn't want to have the baby by the line in the poem "up in Pennsylvania, I met a little man, not Rumpelstiltskin, at all, at all..." I believe this meant that the man had to opposite feeling that the classic children story Rumpelstiltskin had, he didn't want his first born, he actually wanted nothing to do with it. But in the last part I took it that she is metaphorically calling herself and the man a coward. Him for not wanting the baby and her for not speaking up and saying she wanted to keep it. The last line is"...this baby that I bleed." I interpreted that she is now being haunted by her decision to abort the baby, and now she is unable to change what she did and now has to live with it.
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