Expliction of the poem FEAR
My Explication of the poem Fear by Gabriela Mistral
I am going to explain to you the poem “Fear” by Gabriela Mistral. Her poem is about her fear of society changing the ways of her daughter, turning her into an independent adult. She fears that her daughter will change from the innocent young girl that she is, into a not so innocent, careless adult who doesn’t need her mother’s love. As the speaker’s daughter grows up she wants her to stay the same, always be good and careful in life, staying by her mother’s side. Each stanza represents a different time period in the daughters life starting with infancy and ending with adult. Throughout the poem she is referring to society as “them.”
During this poem a mother has great fear of very many changes, her daughter growing up frightens her though it must happen. This is a personal story about her own feelings toward her daughter’s life. The main idea is that she worries her daughter will grow up too fast and not need her own mother. The speaker uses a special word, eaves, meaning lower edges of a roof to define where a swallow (her daughter) would lay in the night. She also uses the terms swallow, princess, and queen to symbolize her daughter growing from a sweet, needy infant to an independent, careless adult.
The first stanza starts by saying “I don’t want them to turn my daughter into a swallow,” this refers to the infancy stage and is repeated in line 7. The speaker, her mother, uses the term swallow to represent her daughter growing up and leaving, no longer wanting to be at home, in her nest with her mother. She then says “She would fly far away into the sky and never fly again to my straw bed, or she would nest in the eaves where I could not comb her hair.” This shows that she is fearful that once her daughter grows into an adult she will not come back to see her, she will not want to visit. She will grow too independent to need her mother’s love, her mother’s touch. The second stanza begins with “I
I am going to explain to you the poem “Fear” by Gabriela Mistral. Her poem is about her fear of society changing the ways of her daughter, turning her into an independent adult. She fears that her daughter will change from the innocent young girl that she is, into a not so innocent, careless adult who doesn’t need her mother’s love. As the speaker’s daughter grows up she wants her to stay the same, always be good and careful in life, staying by her mother’s side. Each stanza represents a different time period in the daughters life starting with infancy and ending with adult. Throughout the poem she is referring to society as “them.”
During this poem a mother has great fear of very many changes, her daughter growing up frightens her though it must happen. This is a personal story about her own feelings toward her daughter’s life. The main idea is that she worries her daughter will grow up too fast and not need her own mother. The speaker uses a special word, eaves, meaning lower edges of a roof to define where a swallow (her daughter) would lay in the night. She also uses the terms swallow, princess, and queen to symbolize her daughter growing from a sweet, needy infant to an independent, careless adult.
The first stanza starts by saying “I don’t want them to turn my daughter into a swallow,” this refers to the infancy stage and is repeated in line 7. The speaker, her mother, uses the term swallow to represent her daughter growing up and leaving, no longer wanting to be at home, in her nest with her mother. She then says “She would fly far away into the sky and never fly again to my straw bed, or she would nest in the eaves where I could not comb her hair.” This shows that she is fearful that once her daughter grows into an adult she will not come back to see her, she will not want to visit. She will grow too independent to need her mother’s love, her mother’s touch. The second stanza begins with “I