Let’s think about the important points of the poem……
"as a late winter moon’’
Alliteration – " smile and smile and smile ’’
There are contrast used.
1. Where was the poet and the mother going?
2. What is the ‘ childhood fear ’ experienced by poet ?
3. What has the poet being compared to and why?
4. Mention the phases used in poem which signify youth and energy?
5. Why does the poet smile at end? What kind of smile it is?
Poetess traveling to cochin airport with her old mother in a car .
Looks at the wan , pale face of her dozing mother.
Old fear of loosing her mother returns.
Sprinting trees and merry children provide the contrast and relief.
After the security check the old familiar ache returns.
Tries to hide her face by smiling .
Ends with a positive note .
Simile – "like that of a corpse ’’
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