Question
English Question on My mother at sixty-six
What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels?
Answer
The emotional pain and ache that the poet feels is due to the realization that her mother has grown old. She has become frail and pale like a corpse. She is dependent on her children. The ache also refers to the childhood fear when the poet felt insecure without her mother. This sense of insecurity pervades and revisits the poet due to the mother’s old age and her approaching end.