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    Summary of My Mother at Sixty

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    The document provides a summary of the poem "My Mother at Sixty-Six" by Kamala Das. It describes the author feeling fear and sadness as she sees her aging mother's face looking like a corpse. She is reminded of her mother's youth and feels hurt by her mother's mortality. At the airport goodbye, the author compares her mother to a late-night moon hindered by fog, showing her advanced age. The author feels terrified of unexpectedly losing her beloved mother to old age and cries silently, hiding her tears to keep her mother happy. The summary examines the beautiful relationship and bond between mother and daughter explored in the poem.

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    The document provides a summary of the poem "My Mother at Sixty-Six" by Kamala Das. It describes the author feeling fear and sadness as she sees her aging mother's face looking like a corpse. She is reminded of her mother's youth and feels hurt by her mother's mortality. At the airport goodbye, the author compares her mother to a late-night moon hindered by fog, showing her advanced age. The author feels terrified of unexpectedly losing her beloved mother to old age and cries silently, hiding her tears to keep her mother happy. The summary examines the beautiful relationship and bond between mother and daughter explored in the poem.

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    The document provides a summary of the poem "My Mother at Sixty-Six" by Kamala Das. It describes the author feeling fear and sadness as she sees her aging mother's face looking like a corpse. She is reminded of her mother's youth and feels hurt by her mother's mortality. At the airport goodbye, the author compares her mother to a late-night moon hindered by fog, showing her advanced age. The author feels terrified of unexpectedly losing her beloved mother to old age and cries silently, hiding her tears to keep her mother happy. The summary examines the beautiful relationship and bond between mother and daughter explored in the poem.

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    Summary of My Mother at Sixty

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    The document provides a summary of the poem "My Mother at Sixty-Six" by Kamala Das. It describes the author feeling fear and sadness as she sees her aging mother's face looking like a corpse. She is reminded of her mother's youth and feels hurt by her mother's mortality. At the airport goodbye, the author compares her mother to a late-night moon hindered by fog, showing her advanced age. The author feels terrified of unexpectedly losing her beloved mother to old age and cries silently, hiding her tears to keep her mother happy. The summary examines the beautiful relationship and bond between mother and daughter explored in the poem.

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    Summary of My Mother at Sixty-six

    My mother at sixty-six is a poem whose author is Kamala Das. The


    writer is famous for capturing the complications of relationships
    between human beings. This poem is one of the best examples of
    bonding in humans. Especially the bond between a mother and a
    daughter. This poem defines the fear of the author of losing her
    mother. My mother at sixty-six summary will elaborate on the
    feelings of the author and will also define the meaning of the poem.

    My Mother at Sixty six Summary in English


    Ageing is an inescapable phase of every human’s life. A person
    enters their childhood, experiences adolescence when they are
    energetic and have so many dreams. Finally, every person
    approaches their old age and then they die. Relationships between
    people become much stronger in every phase of life. No one can’t
    bear the separation from their loved ones just because of ageing.

    Firstly, when the author going to the Cochin airport with her mother
    she looks at her carefully and presents before us her image. As she
    looks at her mother’s soft and whitish face, she gets stuck with the
    fear of losing her mother. Her mother with a sleepy face and open
    mouth is comparable to a corpse. Here, the author shows love and
    affection in a relationship between a mother and a daughter.

    The poet is hurt and sad and shifts her attention outside the car for
    driving out the undesirable feelings. She changes her bad mood. The
    scene from the window of the car is of rising life and energy. The fast
    sprinting green and huge trees alongside the cheerfully playing kids
    represent life, youth, and vitality. The poet here is remembering
    about her own childhood. In her childhood, her mother was young
    and beautiful. Whereas now her mother is surrounded by the fear of
    losing her life and that made her insecure and sad.
    She reaches the airport to take her flight. It shows departure and
    parting which makes her sad. As she said goodbye to her mother, the
    image of the old mother in the dusk of years strikes her. Here again, a
    simile is comparable with her mother with a late-night moon of the
    winters. The light of the moon is an obstacle by the fog and haze as
    she appears older now.

    The poet is now feeling the pain of getting separated because of


    leaving her mother. Her childhood fear of losing her loving mother
    now became so terrifying. Now her mother could die of old age
    anytime unexpectedly. She is so sad that she starts crying slowly
    without control but keeping a brave heart she hides her tears and
    starts smiling. Thus, she offers her farewell to her old mother and
    keeps her hope of seeing her mother alive again. She says “see you
    soon, Amma”. She hides her tears and sorrow as she does not want to
    make a painful and emotional environment. Moreover, she doesn’t
    want her mother to cry and shows her that she is enjoying her life.
    She expects her mother to be happy and enjoy her life just like her.

    Conclusion of My Mother at Sixty-six

    To conclude, my mother at sixty six summary revolves around the


    beautiful relationship between the poet and her mother. The summary
    shows the theme of the advancing age of the mother of the author and
    the fear of separation. This apparently short poem touches upon the
    theme of a beautiful bond between the mother and the daughter. It
    shows how beautiful a relationship a mother and a daughter can have.

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