Mother by Adolf Hitler

I chose to analyze this poem because I was thinking about how the class discussed if future classes should read Ender Games because of it's authors view toward gay people.  This poem was really good even though it was written by a man who may not be considered to be the nicest man that lived.  This poem proves that just because a writing or piece of art is done by a person with controversial opinions it doesn't mean that it's automatically a bad piece of work.
This poem has many elements of poetry starting with some alliteration in the first line when he writes, "“When your mother has grown older."  There the yOUr,mOther,grOwn, and Older.  This poem is translated to English because it was originally written in German, so it's interesting how that played out.  I also noticed how this poem isn't written for the present.  It's written for when your mother gets old in the later years.  There was also a internal rhyme when he writes, "Escort her with happy pleasure." The her and the pleaSURE  rhyme.  When this poem was written Hitler's mother was already dead, so he has these memories of when his mother was to old to do things herself.  In the third stanza there's a AB rhyme pattern.  In the last 4 lines they all start with "And if she asks again."  The last 4 lines really led me to believe that his poem was written from a previous experiences of his.  I don't exactly know what it is, but I think it may be because in the ninth line it end with an explanation mark.  It's hard to explain, but maybe it's just how I read it in my head. The second to last line had an internal rhyme with "properly" and "happily."  I feel like the translation was tweaked a little bit, so you would get these internal rhymes because it would seem like a poem would lose it's rhythm and sound of letters when translated like a haiku would.    The last line was perfect example of a good ending for a poem.  It's kind of mysterious, but it's also pretty obvious was Hitler is implying.


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