Appreciation of some body mother poem
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The poem “Somebody's Mother” is about a mother and what all her activities are. The image of a mother in this poem is of a woman who is old and weak. She is alone and sad. Also, her feet are frail and she is bent. When she is unable to cross the road, the boys came to help her. This symbolizes the help and support that we get in our lives in our bad days. The poem ends in a happy mood in which the poet says that is always a helping hand for everyone.
Figure of speech in the poem "Somebody's Mother" by Mary Dow Brine are:
The woman was old and ragged and gray - repartition
Unheeding the glance of her anxious eye – synecdoche
Came happy boys like a flock of sheep - simile
Hastened the children on their way - inversion
She placed and so without hurt or harm – alliteration
The use of hyperbole in the lines 'ragged and grey... bent with chill.'
Mother” is about a mother and what all her activities are. The image of a mother in this poem is of a woman who is old and weak. She is alone and sad. Also, her feet are frail and she is bent.