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Lucille Clifton Lucille Clifton In the poems “The Lost Baby Poem”, “She Understands Me”, and “Homage to My Hips”, Lucille Clifton is letting the reader know how she feels about life issues. In the three poems, Clifton does a great job of simplifying reproduction, abortion, and beauty. She makes very strong points about the way she feels. Clifton’s poems seem guided by her own experience and consciousness. In “She Understands Me”, the author is telling us about the time she had a baby; how she lived through her child again. In “The Lost Baby Poem”, Clifton is telling us about abortion, and how it must have been for the baby, and the way she felt about abortion. In “Homage to My Hips”, the author is telling us how she looks, and that she can get any man she wants. Her style throughout these poems is simple, very descriptive, and constant. Clifton’s poems are simple in language, complex in ideas, and reflective of everyday issues. In “The Lost Baby Poem,” Clifton explains why the mother did not have her child. It would have been born in winter, in a time where she had financial problems. Perhaps she would have given up her baby for poems, baby, poem, clifton, about, very, hips, three, author, simple, been, abortion, woman, understands, style, same, out, men, lucille, issues, image, herself, clifton’s, child, body, because, writing, way, throughout, through, things, telling, symbolism, strong, seem, punctuation