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My Mother At Sixty-Six

Question
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What type of contracts one can realise in the poem “My Mother At Sixty-six?”

 

Solution

In the poem ‘My Mother At Sixty-six one can realise continuity and stability, life and activity etc. The mother of the poetess is sixty-six. The age has withered her strength and vigour. Her face is pale and looks like a corpse. The outside world expresses a good contrast. The young children are coming out of their homes. The image of dozing is contrasted with ‘spilling’ of the children. Her ‘ashen’ face is contrasted and the ‘corpse like’ face is contrasted with young trees sprinting.