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    The poem describes the poet's mother reaching the age of 66. As they travel together in a car, the poet is reminded of her mother's advancing age. She sees wrinkles and grey hair that were not there before. To forget the pain of her mother growing older, the poet looks outside at young trees and children at play. This contrasts with the somber mood in the car. At the airport, the poet acts strangely and childishly, trying to escape the sadness of her mother's impending mortality. The lack of punctuation in the poem conveys the poet's inability to fully accept her mother's status as a dying woman.

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    The poem describes the poet's mother reaching the age of 66. As they travel together in a car, the poet is reminded of her mother's advancing age. She sees wrinkles and grey hair that were not there before. To forget the pain of her mother growing older, the poet looks outside at young trees and children at play. This contrasts with the somber mood in the car. At the airport, the poet acts strangely and childishly, trying to escape the sadness of her mother's impending mortality. The lack of punctuation in the poem conveys the poet's inability to fully accept her mother's status as a dying woman.

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    The poem describes the poet's mother reaching the age of 66. As they travel together in a car, the poet is reminded of her mother's advancing age. She sees wrinkles and grey hair that were not there before. To forget the pain of her mother growing older, the poet looks outside at young trees and children at play. This contrasts with the somber mood in the car. At the airport, the poet acts strangely and childishly, trying to escape the sadness of her mother's impending mortality. The lack of punctuation in the poem conveys the poet's inability to fully accept her mother's status as a dying woman.

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    My Mother at Sixty Six Q&A Worksheet

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    The poem describes the poet's mother reaching the age of 66. As they travel together in a car, the poet is reminded of her mother's advancing age. She sees wrinkles and grey hair that were not there before. To forget the pain of her mother growing older, the poet looks outside at young trees and children at play. This contrasts with the somber mood in the car. At the airport, the poet acts strangely and childishly, trying to escape the sadness of her mother's impending mortality. The lack of punctuation in the poem conveys the poet's inability to fully accept her mother's status as a dying woman.

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    MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX – KAMALA DAS

    NAME:
    CLASS:

    ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ON THE SHEET ITSELF.

    1. What does, “I saw my mother beside


    me” tell about the poet’s intimacy
    with her?
    2. What reminded the poet of the
    mother’s ageing?
    3. What did the poet do to forget the
    pain of the thought that her mother
    was terribly ageing?
    4. What do young trees and merry
    children convey? How does this sight
    run a contrast with the scene inside
    the car in which the poet and her
    mother travelled?
    5. Was the poet an escapist? What was
    she trying to escape from?
    6. Why is the mother compared to a late
    winter’s moon?
    7. Bring out the poet’s unusual
    behaviour at the airport?
    8. Bring out the ironies in the poet’s
    behaviour during the parting
    moments at the airports and on the
    way. Why was the poet’s sadness at
    the airport similar to her childhood’s
    fear?
    9. The poem, My Mother at Sixty Six’ is
    very much notable with its absence of
    a full stop. What effect does the poet
    try to bring out with this style of
    writing?
    10. How does the poet realize that her
    mother was a dying woman?

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