Question

I saw my mother,

beside me,

doze, open mouthed, her face

ashen like that

of a corpse and realised with pain

that she was as old as she

looked but soon

put that thought away.

a. What worried the poet when she looked at her mother?

b. Why was there pain in her realisation?

c. Why did she put that thought away?

d. Identify the figure of speech used in the above lines​

Answer 1

Answer:

1 she worried that might be she didn't live long now

2. may be she lost her soon

3 she put the stressful thought away about her mother

4 simile