Though both of these poems are about benig pregnant with a child, they veiw the experience, and conclude in very different ways. The first poem, "Now that I am Forever with Child," share the beauty of being a mother. As she describes the time process and different stages she goes through with the growing child in her womb, there is a tone of love and excitement, joy. One can tell before the child is even born, the mother is attatched and has a bond with her soon to be baby girl. It portrays the idea that women naturally have a maternal nature. It almost idolizes becoming a mother, and makes you feel confident in the speaker.
"The Lost Baby Poem," does almost the exact opposit. Just by the title you can clearly see this is not a "happy-go-lucky," piece of literature. This poem is potentiallu referring to many things. But what i intitially pick up after first reading it, is a poor(maybe homeless), single woman, who becomes pregnant. The reason i have the feeling she is homelesss is because many times she refers to sewages in the city when talking about bodies of water. Also it relates to the tone of the poem because one usually doesn't find joy in sewage waters. She also talks about having no car in the wonter, when the child SHOULD have been born, so the flee to canada, the authors actual home(fun fact). She also infers the idea if the child were to be born, it;s life would be much better if set for adoption, but they will never know. This poem is definitely a reflection and story of how the narrator had somehow killed her unborn child. The tone of the poem is much different then the first. It is sad, regretful, dark, and has a feeling of shame. This sounds odd, but i almost feel cold while reading it. Due to all the refrences to bodies of water and drowning, i am picking up that the woman was an alcolic, and drank her baby to death.
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