Question

what are young trees described as sprinting in poem my mother at sixty six.
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Answer 1

MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX

• 'My Mother At Sixty Six' is a painful composition of Kamala Das. This poem is about his mother who was sixty six at the time. It is also an example of complex subtleties of human relationships.
• Kamala Das with her sixty six years old mother were going to the airport. On the way she saw trees were moving backward.
• Here sprinting has two meanings. one is 'they(trees)' are moving back as usually we see. Next 'sprinting' is used in the poem as long time. Through 'the young trees sprinting' she has described that once her mother was young but now she became older. Ageing is a natural process. It is agreed by al.
• Sprinting also indicates the merry children who were 'spilling out of their homes'.

Answer 2

In this poem, the poet is talking about the aging process of human beings.

Explanation:

• The poet was heading towards the airport in her car and she did not want to think much about her fragile and old mother.
• She saw the trees on the banks of the road and they were moving past the car.
• The thought that sprinting of trees is like the human aging process.