First published at 00:00 UTC on May 12th, 2019.
A #Mothersday challenge! This poem by William Wordsworth, THE MAD MOTHER, is not your typical lovey-dovey mom poem. Rather, it focuses on a woman, whose husband abandoned her and her newborn, as she copes with this new reality and her own apparent i…
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A #Mothersday challenge! This poem by William Wordsworth, THE MAD MOTHER, is not your typical lovey-dovey mom poem. Rather, it focuses on a woman, whose husband abandoned her and her newborn, as she copes with this new reality and her own apparent insanity.
One way art causes serious contemplation in the mind of an active observer is by "the pleasure which the mind derives from the perception of similitude and dissimilitude."
In other words, the mind find pleasure in seeing similarities among dissimilar things.
What can we learn about motherhood from an insane, abandoned, wild mother?
Tune in for this week's Sunday Morning Poetry!
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