My Raptor

The sonnet, “My Raptor” has a message best described as questioning whether or not the baby and woman are separate or together both physically and mentally. The artist use metaphors to get her ideas a cross. The speaker describes herself as a raptor. I had the image of a raptor hunting, and when it sees prey move, the raptor immediately freezes and makes sure that it saw the motion correctly, while planning on what the next course of movement should be. I think the intended audience members are woman with child, who can relate to the feeling of having a child move within. S a male, I will never really know what the experience is like, and the poem will not strike home as hard as it probably would for the intended audience members.  I do not find this particular sonnet persuasive, because I do not feel as if I can relate. The subject matter is something foreign to me. I am not married either, so I am not with a spouse who might be going through a similar situation that could describe to me the feeling. If I were o research for this paper, I would definitely look into the psychology of pregnant woman, and what their general perception to how mentally in-sync they are with the children. I would also talk to people I know with children and ask them what it is like to have another human inside you who is physically dependent, but you have no control over the mind of the child.