Mother Any Distance

Question 1

Time period

Answer 1

1963

Question 2

“Mother” shows…

Answer 2

Addressing her directly-poem is like a personal message

Question 3

“Doors and “floors” rhyme but “hands and “span” are only a half-rhyme. What does this show?

Answer 3

Dislocation between him and his mother

Question 4

What quote?

•moving away from his mother physically but emotionally

Answer 4

“ then leaving up the stairs”

Question 5

What quote?

• use of “pinch” suggest last how Desperately she doesn’t want to let him go
• suggests pain-if she doesn’t let him go,she’ll hurt him

Answer 5

“Your fingertips still pinch that last one hundredth of an inch”

Question 6

What quote?

• bird imagery suggest “hatching” and flying the best.
• he’s breaking free of his mother’s protection but doesn’t know if he’ll succeed with her security
• the two short lines “has to give” and ….. emphasises message

Answer 6

“ I reach towards a hatch that opens an endless sky to fall or fly”