The poem my mother at 66 brings home the theme that ageing is a slow process and is going to envelop one and all comment
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The poet's personal experience relates to her observation of the features of her mother's old days The observation further leads to her experiencing fear and pain of separation. The experience universally signifies subtlety of mother child relationships and the inevitable process of ageing that no one can escape.. Similarly every one feels the way the poet feels about her mother .Her personal experience of travelling in a car with her aged mother becomes impersonal and conveys a universal message to all people across the world
“Poetry is about language being as complex and as beautiful as it possibly can be, all at once,” says Alice Fulton, English. “It isn’t to convey facts or information. It conveys something that is beyond words—you can’t ever unpack everything in a good poem because the language is inherently slippery and purposefully layered.”
This depth may be why poetry has been used over centuries to address the topics that require it: love, death, grief, and the experience of time. Fulton, author of seven books of poetry, a book of essays, and a collection of stories, found herself pointedly writing toward these deeper, more difficult themes in her latest book of poems, Barely Composed (W.W. Norton and Company, 2015).