My Mother at Sixty-six
Think it out
1. What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
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2. Why are the young trees described as ‘sprinting’?
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3. Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children
‘spilling out of their homes’?
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4. Why has the mother been compared to the ‘late winter’s moon’?
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5. What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
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