Question

explain the expression pain that looked as old as she was what was the poet looking at what did she notice​

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Answer:

The mother of the poet is 66 years old. She was sitting beside the poet and also dozing opening her mouth. The poet felt sad by seeing the lifeless and faded face of her mother. She thought her mother as an image of decay, passivity and death. Her mother was also lost in some thoughts.