Question

Where were poet and her mother going?from poem my mother at sixty six 2?

Answer 1

the poet and her mother were going to the airport as the poet was going to another place leaving her mother.

Answer 2

On one Friday morning, the poet was going to Cochin from where she had to board an aeroplane for her journey back home. She was accompanied by her mother who was there to see her daughter off at the airport.

The poet described her mother as old and pale. Her face appeared colourless as if it were of a dead body. This was a hard to accept reality and it's realisation was alarming.

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