Question

Simile and metaphor are the effective literary devices used by Kamala Das to describe her mother. Explain with reference to the poem ‘My mother At Sixty-six’.​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Kamala Das makes the effective use of the literary device simile when she compares her mother to a dead body, she again uses it when she is making her comparison with the moon in winter.
2. We can see that she uses the literary device of metaphor in the line “Trees sprinting, merry children spilling out of their homes'. ”