Question

Why has poet compared her mother to the late winter's moon?\?

Answer 1

As the poetess' mother grows older, she had started to lose all her vitality and radiance. The poetess uses the simile of "late winter's moon" for her mother to indicate her approaching death.

Winter, being the last season of the year, is synonymous with lifelessness and dormancy. And, a winter's moon is also pale-white in color bearing close resemblance with her mother who, having lost all her strength and beauty, looks 'wan' and 'pale' to the poet. Her mother, too, is in the last phase of her life.

Answer 2

Answer:

Just as a late winter's moon looks hazy and appears to lack brightness and lustre due to mist,fog, similarly,the poet's mother who is now old,look pale due to ageing

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