Question

what childhood fear do you think the poet is reffering to in the poem "my mother at sixty six. (please write ur answer in 200 words ​

Answer 1

Answer:

The poet is pained at the ageing and decaying of her mother. The fear is that with ageing comes decay and death. The sight of her old mother's 'ashen' and corpse-like face arouses “that old familiar ache” in her heart. Her childhood fear returns.