Poetry Across Time - Relationships - Praise Song for My Mother
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- Created on: 01-11-12 15:37
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- Praise Song for My Mother
- Title - Praise Song for My Mother
- Suggests attitude to Mother
- Ambiguous
- Enjambment between lines and verses
- 'deep and bold and fathoming'
- Thinking things through
- Emotional and intellectual
- 'moon's eye to me'
- Gravity towards her
- 'sunrise', 'rise and warm and streaming'
- Comforting love
- 4th stanza
- Imagery 'hug' protection
- Cultural references implies a traditional close Mother. Food and childhood
- 'replenishing replenishing'
- Repetition and alliteration. Reflective
- Fill up
- 5th stanza
- Past tense
- Embrace adulthood - she had to let her go
- Thinking of not only her Mother but also of where she grew up
- Metaphors - references to nature compare her Mother perhaps to Mother Nature
- Written by Grace Nichols
- Wrote about her Mother in Ghana
- Title - Praise Song for My Mother
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