A Woman Mourned By Daughters: An Analysis
“A Woman Mourned by Daughters”, by Adrienne Rich, is a very descriptive
poem in which two women are speaking to their dead mother. There are several
parts to this poem starting from the when the mother dies, and moving gradually
backward to when the daughters were young girls.
It begins with the daughters sitting in their mothers kitchen, “mourning”
over their mothers death, only they aren\'t upset or crying (Lines 1-3). They are
“spent” (drained and tired) from all the pressure their mother put on them,
before and after she died.
The next section (Lines 4-10) is a description of their dead mother as a
persistent presence in their lives. They are so burdened by the power she still
carries over them, even though she is no longer living.
They proceed in speaking about her as an elderly woman, weak and frail, “
a straw blown on the bed” (Lines 11-14). The describe her on her death bed. “
Like a corpse pulled from the sea”.
In the......
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