Why do you think the title of the poem is Poem at 39 ?
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Thirty -nine is a significant time in the life of a woman. She reaches her prime and is on the verge of entering forty. It is a difficult phase for her if she is a single mother. Alice Walker had met Melvyn Roseman Leventhal, a Jewish civil rights lawyer in 1965, and had her daughter Rebecca in 1967. They divorced in 1976.The speaker at this juncture has probably reached a stage ,where she longs for the presence of a father in her daughter's life. She thus becomes nostalgic for her own father.
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The title of the poem is ‘Poem at 39.’ The title is so given, because the poet, Walker, has written it when she was 39.
Explanation:
The age is of significance to walker here. It seems like she has realized a few things about her father at this particular age. 39 is also an age where people, in general, can relate very well to all the feelings that our parents might have felt while raising the family. This poem is about a daughter reminiscing her time with her father.