My mother at sixty six- line by line explanation
MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX BY- kamala Das (line-by-line explanation) Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday morning, I saw my mother, beside me, doze, open mouthed, her face ashen like that of a corpse and realized with pain that she was as old as she looked but soon put that thought away, an looked out at Young Trees sprinting, the merry children spilling out of their homes, but after the airport’s security check, standing a few yards away, I looked again at her, wan, pale as a late winter’s moon and felt that old familiar ache, my childhood’s fear, but all I said was, see you soon, Amma, all I did was smile and sm i le and smile..... ( There is 1 paragraph only and no particular stanza, As poem is written in Free Verse) . (Driving from my parent’s home to Cochin last Friday morning) - Here, My refers to poet. Poet is driving from her parent's home to Cochin air port, ...