The central idea of this poem is a mother’s love. Each stanza brings out the deep love the mother has for her son and her agony from being ripped apart from him. The Slave Mother Summary
The central idea of this poem is a mother’s love. Each stanza brings out the deep love the mother has for her son and her agony from being ripped apart from him.
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This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows: Apostrophe: Phrases such as “Heard you that shriek?” and “Saw you those hands so sadly clasped” directly address the readers with the usage of the word “you”, making them examples of Apostrophe thus. Synecdoche: The phrase “cruRead more
This poem has a myriad of poetic devices, some of which are as follows:
The Slave Mother Summary