Question

what means did the poet employee throughout the poem to forget the pain of the poet's expect ed separation from her mother in chapter my mother at sixty six


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Answer 1

Explanation:

(a) The parting words suggest the optimism of the poetess. They console the mother that she would return soon and give her a hope of survival. (b) The poet smiled and smiled to conceal her fear and pain of separation from her mother. Again the smile was to give an assurance of survival to the mother.

The poet realized with pain that her mother had become rather old and looked almost like a corpse. 3. The realisation was painful because it brought a fear of separation from her mother and a sense of helplessness at her inability to do anything for her mother.