Summary Of Still Memory By Mary Karrr

Mary Karr's poem "Still Memory" is her recollection of a childhood memory as experienced through a dream. It explores the issues of her past memory wondering the presence of change in her life, both through her parents and setting, but also through time itself. This theme of change is explored through inquiring her parent's death, "not dead," and "not yet born each into a small urn of ash," dramatizes her views of how she see's her parents alive, giving a sense that as she looks back on this memory, her parents are not. Her experience of this morning is dramatized showing her deep and foreboding thoughts about change and her parents. The motion and change of time also plays a role in shaping her recollection of this memory. Several accounts