Finally, when the speaker proclaims "I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children," she tells the readers that she is being haunted by voices of her unborn children, thus expressing her pain and loss(lines 11-12). ... She might now see them as her unborn children. Later on in the stanza, the speaker once again changes her word usage when she now calls her children her "dears" and "sweets"(lines 13-14). ... In the first stanza she expresses those things that her unborn children will never be able to do. ... Upper Saddle River, Ne...

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