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Talking of Mothers: Poems for Every Mother (Everyman Poetry)

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This anthology of poems about mothers has much of mourning, melancholy and loss in it. Brooks - Davies writes in his introduction, "So many of these poems register tenderness, and so many them pain." They deal with infant death, hard labor of the majority of women, the loss of the maiden name,pain of having to earn a living . I found the most touching poem that of John Masefield in which he shows gratitude for the anxiety and devotion of his mother in raising him.
This anthology is a bit too exclusively English for me. I too would have appreciated more poems of appreciation of mothers. And missing from the anthology in my feeling at least is any truly powerfully great and moving poem.
When we consider that each and every human being owes a primary debt to its mother it is a bit disappointing reading these poems, and feeling that debt is not done justice.
When I think of the goodness and kindness of my own mother, the faith and love she showed to all members of her family through difficult times I of course have the sense that no poem could do her justice.