Poems and Songs about Children
There are lots of poems and songs about romantic love. That makes sense; it is a powerful emotion and one commonly experienced. Why aren’t there poems and songs about mother-love? It has drama, power, and commonality too.
May 24th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
The answer to the the why for me is obvious. Mother-love may be indicative of drama but absolutely missing in power. The poems will roll in when the dynamics change and the word mother sells as well as ‘romance’.
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May 24th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Mothers can be as obsessive about their children as lovers are about their beloveds. Indeed, I wonder whether women would take physical risks for their men as willingly as for their children.
Perhaps, though, part of the answer is that men create art, and create it for men mostly, and father-love is weaker than mother-love. Yet there ought to be profit in creating it for women too.