Poem analysis for My Mother

The tone for the poem ‘For My Mother’ is regret. The daughter is regretting that she could not be with his mother because she is busy with her job. This is can be seen in stanza two from the first line until the last line of the stanza. ‘ A different daughter, or mother, would surely have shared a life of common happiness’. The second tone for this poem is a tone of appreciation. The daughter appreciates her mother and tries not to hurt her feelings. This is stated in stanza one, line one to seventeen. ‘ I sent a letter, careful to say nothing….’.
There are two imageries in this poem. The first imagery is sight which is in stanza one, line eight and eleven,(see). The second imagery is auditory, the word ‘talk’. This is stated in stanza three, line four,(talks).
There are five symbols in this poem. The first symbol is a symbol of rememberance that is symbolizes through letter. This can be seen stanza one, line one “I sent a letter”. The second symbol is check which symbolizes the love and care or as a caregiver. This is stated in stanza one, line five, “I sent a check”. The third symbol is the symbol of memory and rememberance. The fourth symbol is hemming that can be found in stanza three, line six “hemming the days..”. The word hemming means sewing or putting things together by sewing them. In this poem, the narrator is doing all the chores so that by the end of the day, everything will end well and to make sure that everything goes on smoothly. The last symbol in this poem is the word “seed”, stated in stanza three, line ten to eleven “another day, gone to seed” which means that there are another day to start.