Question

how can you say that the poet has not lost hopes about her mother?

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Answer 1

Answer:

please provide the full information...we don't know that about which poet is talking about here ...and from which chapter....so unfortunately we can't answer this question....

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Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

The daughter's loss then is two-fold: her loss of the joy of her mother's true laughter and the loss of her mother's life. The mother's loss is two-fold as well: the loss of her belief in her past, which she came to see through cynical eyes, and the loss of hope and joy in her present life. Based upon this analysis of the poem's intentional ambiguity, it seems impossible to say that one or the other had the greater loss. The loss of your own life to yourself, the intrusion of wry bitterness with lost hopes and dreams, is a painful loss. At the same time, a daughter's loss of her experience of her mother's true laughter followed by loss due to her death, is an equally painful loss. The ambiguity of these lines indicates that the poet wants us to understand and mourn the loss that each experiences.

There are two additional points to consider in trying to understand the ambiguity of the losses. (1) The daughter's loss would have been less had the mother not lost her genuine laughter. (2) Both pasts, "sea holiday" and "her laughter," were "wry / With the laboured ease of loss." The personified "sea holiday" was wryly mocking the mother and it experiences its own loss because of their "terribly transient feet," since all three girls have (or will) die like the mother has died.