Question

Summary on clm poem written by john masefield

Answer 1

In the poem "C.L.M" the poet talks about his mother who was died when he was young. He says the this was mother who made him man and whose care make him what he is today.The mother was the one keep him during his pregnancy and care for him after that. The poet is sad that his mother no more with him to see whether is son is doing good or bad and whether his love make him good or bad.He says that even if she come form grave she may not be recognize his son as he is grown much now. And even now he could not repay the things what he done for himself and can't repay her love in any condition.

Answer 2

John Masefield writes about his mother whom he has lost at the age of six.

He states how he began his journey in his mother’s womb which was dark and how his mother had lost her beauty because of his birth and made him a man. “Her beauty fed my common earth” means that she has lost her beauty because of pregnancy.

His experience in the womb is explained that he was not able to see, breathe nor stir yet, she gave him life and now she is in the grave where she could not see whether her love has transformed him into good or bad, whether he uses his charm for ill or well.

If she could come down from the grave gates, she would not recognize him because he is a grown-up man now unless he allows his "soul’s face" and his sense to be seen by her and what she had done to her.  Here, we can feel the earning of a motherless child.

He then thinks how is going to repay the debt of being carried in a womb and going through wretched days till the birth of him.  He feels that he cannot thank her enough.  He then recollects how the world is now.  How men’s lust are roving without being untamed and how women’s life is trampled.  He ends the poem by asking the gates of the grave to remain closed otherwise, he will be ashamed of the deeds of the men.