my mother
A Mother’s Bad Dream
As a mother nothing is harder to watch than your child grow up to become an independent individual. As shown in the poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan no matter how old your daughter turns as a mother you will always worry about the choices your child will make and the people that will hurt her throughout life. This poem also show no matter how much you may want to hold on to your little girl you always have to let go and allow them to survive for themselves and hope and pray for the best. From the nine months of barring and the 18years of emotional break downs and heart breaks it is common for a mother to become attach to her daughter and not want her to leave and go out into the real world. In the poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” the author speaks to all young female women leaving home form their mother which is clear in the title. She starts off the poem when her daughter was only eight learning to ride a bike without training wheels. It is hard for the mother to let go because her fear of letting her child hurt herself “loping along beside you as you wobbled away”(lines3-5 Panstan) but eventually letting go because she knows she will not be there to hold her hand every step of the way. Even though the mother wants her daughter to remain the little girl she taught how to ride a bike she still has to age. No matter how much you monitor your child or hold their hand eventually by way of life they will have to grow on with their life “sprinted to catch up, while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance”. (Lines14-16). The mother strong guard of her child makes it seem as the further she is from home the more likely something bad will happen to her increasing the mother’s fear of something terrible happing to her baby girl. This poem is dedicated to every mother who gives birth or raise a daughter of their own no matter how hard it maybe eventually every mother will have to let their daughter go and live own her
As a mother nothing is harder to watch than your child grow up to become an independent individual. As shown in the poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan no matter how old your daughter turns as a mother you will always worry about the choices your child will make and the people that will hurt her throughout life. This poem also show no matter how much you may want to hold on to your little girl you always have to let go and allow them to survive for themselves and hope and pray for the best. From the nine months of barring and the 18years of emotional break downs and heart breaks it is common for a mother to become attach to her daughter and not want her to leave and go out into the real world. In the poem “To a Daughter Leaving Home” the author speaks to all young female women leaving home form their mother which is clear in the title. She starts off the poem when her daughter was only eight learning to ride a bike without training wheels. It is hard for the mother to let go because her fear of letting her child hurt herself “loping along beside you as you wobbled away”(lines3-5 Panstan) but eventually letting go because she knows she will not be there to hold her hand every step of the way. Even though the mother wants her daughter to remain the little girl she taught how to ride a bike she still has to age. No matter how much you monitor your child or hold their hand eventually by way of life they will have to grow on with their life “sprinted to catch up, while you grew smaller, more breakable with distance”. (Lines14-16). The mother strong guard of her child makes it seem as the further she is from home the more likely something bad will happen to her increasing the mother’s fear of something terrible happing to her baby girl. This poem is dedicated to every mother who gives birth or raise a daughter of their own no matter how hard it maybe eventually every mother will have to let their daughter go and live own her