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MY MOTHER young-daughter-old-mom-cartoon-illustration_131454-705 AT SIXTY…
MY MOTHER
AT SIXTY SIX
Kamala Das (born March 31, 1934, Thrissur, Malabar Coast [now in Kerala], British India—died May 31, 2009, Pune, India) was an Indian author who wrote openly and frankly about female sexual desire and the experience of being an Indian woman.
WORD MEANING
Beside: alongside
Doze: nap
Doze:Nap
Ashen: pale
Corpse: dead body
Spilling: let out
Sprinting: Moving fast
Wan: dim, weak
Pale: dull, colourless
FIGURE OF SPEECH
SIMILE:-A word or phrase that compares something to something else, using the words like or as.
PERSONIFICATION:-The act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human
CONTRAST:-A great difference between two or more things which is clear when you compare them
REPETITION:- Act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again
IMAGERY:-the use of pictures or words to create images, esp. to create an impression or mood
SUMMARY
My Mother At Sixty Six depicts the dilemma of a child seeing her mother getting old. The lifeless and pale face of the mother pained the poet's heart. In the poem- My Mother At 66, the poet's mother seemed to have been lost in her own world.
