Question

What do you think is the pain that the poet ? (W.r.t : my mother at sixty six)

Answer 1

The pain that the poetess feels is the pain of separation from her mother.She is experiencing the same pain from her childhood that she will be separated from her mother and her mother would die.

Answer 2

The emotional pain and ache that the poet feels is due to the realization that her mother has gone old and has become frail and pale like a corpse. She is dependent on her children. The ache also refers to the old familiar ache of the childhood that revisits the poet due to the mother’s old age and her approaching end.