Question

Theme of poem 'of mothers among other things '.

Answer 1

The poem begins with the speaker smelling the images of his mother’s youth. She was soft, flower-like and silken. That couldn’t last forever though. As she aged she met with adversity, seen through the rain imagery. It tried to tie her up, but she was an eagle and fought through it. But, that wasn’t the end to her troubles.

One very poignant moment in the poem shows the mother, as an eagle, getting one talon trapped in a mousetrap. She lost that finger/talon. The poem concludes with all the images of the previous stanzas come together to depict the mother, in her current, older state, reaching down to “pick a grain of rice from the kitchen floor.” The son sees her whole history in this movement,

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