Why has the mother been compared to the late winter’s moon?
The late winter’s moon is calm and hazy with a dim lustre. It loses its vitality and power. So the poetess compares her mother’s calm, colourless and withered face like the late winter’s moon. She has become weak, wan and ‘pale due to her age of sixty-six. She has lost her vitality.
Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children spilling out of their homes?
What do the parting words of the poet and her smile signify?
What kind of pain and ache that the poetess feels?
Why are the young trees described as sprinting?
