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galben [10]
2 years ago
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Describe the speaker in the poem “The Courage My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. What is her attitude and how does it af

fect the meaning of the poem?
English
2 answers:
-BARSIC- [3]2 years ago
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Answer:

<h2>See below</h2>

Explanation:

"The Courage My Mother Had, " is a reflective poem on the speaker's mother. It tells about how her courage is the most valuable thing, even more so than the brooch that the speaker received from her mother. This attitude affects the meaning of the poem by illustrating the importance of her mother's courage.

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Anit [1.1K]2 years ago
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Her attitude is tough and so it affects the meaning of the poem

<h3>Explanation: </h3>

Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. The poet does this poetry by choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm carefully

Edna St. Vincent Millay is an American poet. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923.

Please read the poet “The Courage My Mother Had” by Edna St. Vincent Milay.

<em>The courage that my mother had </em>

<em>Went with her, and is with her still: </em>

<em>Rock from New England quarried; </em>

<em>Now granite in a granite hill. </em>

<em>The golden brooch my mother wore </em>

<em>She left behind for me to wear; </em>

<em>I have no thing I treasure more: </em>

<em>Yet, it is something I could spare. </em>

<em>Oh, if instead she’d left to me </em>

<em>The thing she took into the grave!– </em>

<em>That courage like a rock, which she </em>

<em>Has no more need of, and I have.</em>

According to the poem above, her attitude is she's love her mother so much and she tries to be tough even her mother was passed away. Attitude itself is a settled way of thinking or feeling about something.

It affect the meaning of the poem because the poem reflects how she thinking and how she behaves in daily lives (attitude). The poem illustrates the courage ''like a rock" of her mother and now its necessary to her

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