Question

what are the poetic devices used in the poem my mother at sixty six

Answer 1

Poetic Devices are literary tools/words such as similes, metaphors, personifications, alliteration, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, etc. that the poets, writers, and authors use to make their work look more appealing and literary.  

Literary devices used in the poem My Mother at Sixty Six by Kamla Das are as follows:

Poetic Device                                 Example

Simile                                her face ashen like that of a corpse

                                           wan, pale as a late winter's moon

Personification                trees sprinting

Repetition                         smile and smile and smile

Answer 2

Here the omen “My mother as sixty is full of imagery simile, contrast and much more describes her face.

Then she wants to compare her wan face with the too late and home the student.

Rhetorical device is commonly make use overt comparison which has relationship between two various things.

This poet use the derive in two instance and compare her mother and face corpse and also other word such as while making comparison.