Question

What is the meaning of the from the backyard in the poem wrinkles

Answer 1

It means the house of the poet's mother where she spent all her childhood, from which she was separated upon marriage to the poet's father.

Explanation:

• In the second stanza, the poet mentions the very foremost sacrifice that his mother made.

• It was when she left her parents’ home and came to live in her husband’s house.  

• She left her home where she has spent all her childhood, which had all bittersweet memories of her life.  

• She was taken from the backyard of her childhood to an entirely new place. In other words, she was uprooted from her backyard like a plant.