Praise Song For My Mother- Songs of Ourselves vol.1 pt.5
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- You were/ water to me/ deep and bold and fathoming
- You were/ moon's eye to me/ pull and grained and mantling
- You were/ sunrise to me/ rise and warm and streaming
- You were/ the fishes red gill to me/ the flame-tree's spread to me/ the crab's leg/ the fried plantain smell/ replenishing replenishing
- Go to your wide futures, you said
- Ultimately knows when to let her children go
- Allows her children to pursue a range of opportunities
- Reference to Caribbean heritage
- Red- warmth and energy
- Extended stanza, more personal
- Go to your wide futures, you said
- Sunrise- hope and renewal
- Uplifting and giving
- You were/ the fishes red gill to me/ the flame-tree's spread to me/ the crab's leg/ the fried plantain smell/ replenishing replenishing
- Moon- constant force, gravitational pull
- Mantle- a type of cloak
- You were/ sunrise to me/ rise and warm and streaming
- Water- symbolic of life
- Fathom- to understand at a deep level
- Syndetic listing- repeated use of 'and' in a list
- You were/ sunrise to me/ rise and warm and streaming
- You were/ the fishes red gill to me/ the flame-tree's spread to me/ the crab's leg/ the fried plantain smell/ replenishing replenishing
- Go to your wide futures, you said
- Ultimately knows when to let her children go
- Allows her children to pursue a range of opportunities
- Reference to Caribbean heritage
- Red- warmth and energy
- Extended stanza, more personal
- Go to your wide futures, you said
- Sunrise- hope and renewal
- Uplifting and giving
- You were/ the fishes red gill to me/ the flame-tree's spread to me/ the crab's leg/ the fried plantain smell/ replenishing replenishing
- Could reflect Caribbean dialect
- Could be seen as childlike- appropriate as she is recalling childhood memories
- You were/ sunrise to me/ rise and warm and streaming
- PRAISE SONG FOR MY MOTHER- Grace Nichols
- You were/ moon's eye to me/ pull and grained and mantling
- Context
- Praise song- traditional African form that uses short sentences to capture the essence of a person or god
- About the speaker's mother
- Nichols is originally from Guyana, which is reflected in some metaphors
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