/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1447689]

Hey /adv/ , i need help with my english homework.

In paragraph form and with references to the poem, discuss the speaker's feelings towards her mother.

I dont expect you to do the paragraph, just a few sentences summing it up for me.

On the farm a willow bridge
though this is Saltspring Island
not Japan. Sometimes it crosses
water, sometimes not. This morning
after rain the ground slides into mud.
My mother and I tread our way
to see the baby llama
in the far pasture. A black Lab lopes up the path, doubles back.
All energy and muscle
and too much love, he bumps our legs.
He belongs here, the family pet.
This morning he has more to do
with time, how it runs ahead and keeps
returning, our smell on its muzzle,
along its back. I'm afraid
he'll knock my mother over.
Suddenly this winter she's unsteady
on her feet. He runs to her
with a stick, strikes her legs
as if he's a monk and shes
a stubborn student, seventy-six
this year. How little time
we have to love each other.
The black dog will not leave
though i shout "No", bang him with my knee
when he jumps up. Our walk becomes a journey, the dog, the winter rains coming on.
My Mother's arm in mine, we turn back.
cross the willow bridge. Now the dog swings round,
gathers everything he is
and flies toward us,
under our feet the water running,
willow branches bending at the sound.

[Anonymous No.1447690]

>Hey /adv/

well fuck

[Anonymous No.1447695]

>/adv/

[Anonymous No.1447705]

>discuss the speaker's feelings towards her mother
I think OP should consider the poems similarities to the tragedy of Oedipus.

[Anonymous No.1447886]

>/adv/

[Anonymous No.1447904]

>/adv/
>mfw
>I have no face

[Anonymous No.1447923]

He's concerned that she is in ill health. He thinks she's frail and is worried she's going to be dying soon. He loves her and wants to spend time with her before she goes

[Anonymous No.1447924]

/homework/

[Anonymous No.1447925]

What a terrible poem.

My dog smells my mother,
now she's ill.
Not Japan.