What kind of pain and ache that the poetess feels?
The poetess feels pain on seeing the pale and corpse like face of her mother. There appears her old familiar pain of childhood in her heart. She realises that her mother’s face has become like the withered moon of the winter season. She feels that time and age spare none and both are inevitable.
Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children spilling out of their homes?
Why are the young trees described as sprinting?
Why has the mother been compared to the late winter’s moon?
What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
