Poems For People Who Hate Poetry

Send us a textA #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!THE MAD MOTHERBy WIlliam WordsworthHer eyes are wild, her head is bare,  The sun has burnt her coal-black hair,  Her eye-brows have a rusty stain,  And she came far from over the main.  She has a baby on her arm,  Or else she were alone;  And underneath the hay-stack warm,  And on the green-wood stone,  She talked and sung the woods among;  And it was in th