Narrative Of A Mother Daughter

“There’s no such thing as aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.”- Celine Dion. Lizabeth, the protagonist, experiences a change in her life through emotional hardships as she grows up and starts to understand more about life. Children are innocent, they don’t realize how mean and disrespectful they are at times. Maturation plays a big role while growing up and changes many things. Maturity is a life-long process of learning and experiencing new things, but also brings responsibility and discipline. In “Marigolds” by Euginia W. Collier the experiences of the narrator support the theme that maturity changes the way one perceives life.

In Father and Child, as the persona moves on from childhood, her father becomes elderly and is entertained by simple things in nature, “birds, flowers, shivery-grass.” These symbols of nature remind the persona of the inconsistency of life and the certainty of death, “sunset exalts its known symbols of transience,” where sunset represents time. Both poems are indicative of the impermanence of life and that the persona has managed to mature and grow beyond the initial fearlessness of childhood moving onto a sophisticated understanding of death.

In this poem, Olds contrasts the descriptions of her parents and contrasts the

Sometimes I wonder just how messed up I’ll be for not having a mother around growing up. Other times I am less pessimistic. Regardless, the lack of a stable relationship with a dominant female figure has altered my personality and how I interact with others.

The imagery in the poem “35/10” also conveys the speaker’s wistfulness and jealousy for her daughter’s youth. The speaker describes her daughter as, “a moist/ precise flower on the tip of a cactus” (9-10) while she says, “my skin shows/ its dry pitting” (8-9). These phrases paint an image of the daughter as blooming and new, whereas the speaker is wilting and used. The word moist is associated with youthfulness and the word dry is associated with old age. The speaker’s use of the contrasting words moist and dry also allows the reader to use visual and tactile senses to picture the physical differences between the

The early learning processes of the young are potrayed more adequately in the poem Father and Child where an older child, this time a girl at a rebellious age, experiments with the constraints of authority in an attempt to seek control for herself. This experimentation leads to an important discovery in her life; death is real and unclean. Just like The Glass Jar, the allusions to nature show the certainly of change and setting the tone for the events.

"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan is about the intricacies and complexities in the relationship between a mother and daughter. Throughout the story, the mother imposes upon her daughter, Jing Mei, her hopes and dreams for her. Jing Mei chooses not what her mother wants of her but only what she wants for herself. She states, "For, unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could be only me" (Tan 1). Thus this "battle of wills" between mother and daughter sets the conflict of the story.

for the past three years, my uncle began to fight for custody and then the mom did not allow the child any visiting. There are many reasons why he chose to fight for his daughter and they were personal, but definitely reasonable. At first the daughter still agreed to come back for the summer and always enjoyed her time. She would see her sibling, and enjoy camping. She never wanted to go back to her mom and always cried when she had to leave. Recently, the mom began brainwashing their daughter. The mom is extremely unhealthy and has chosen to do many inappropriate things which my uncle has proof of. The mom always tells the little girl to be nasty towards her father when they talk on the phone. She verbally spouts off words that an eleven year-old should not even know, while my uncle can hear the mother in the background telling hear what to say.

(7-9) represent the maturity of the daughter and her intelligence. The references show how the daughter analyzes and observes her surroundings, making her appear much too wise for her age. Also, there are descriptions of the boys, in comparison to the daughter, "... They tower and/ bristle, she stands there smooth and sleek" (2-3) symbolizes the distinct differences between the genders around the age of puberty. Each element of symbolism, whether directed at the daughter or not, contributes adequate support to the poem's

As we reach the end of the poem, the speakers attitude changes. The mother realizes that aging is just a part of life. We all get older, we all start to wrinkle and our hair color eventually turns grey. She realizes that at some point she has to let go of her daughter’s childhood so that she can start a family of her own one day and keep the generation going. The speaker and the daughter are moving forward in their lives but their aging processes, at the time, are

Sharon Olds writes extensively on family and relationships, addressing the many roles of the woman: mother, daughter, and lover – roles and experiences that she addresses candidly in a relatable and near-confessional manner through defamiliarization, candid description, and imagery. Readers take these simple examples to heart, visualizing and understanding each scenario Olds describes, ultimately able to relate. Assuming the narrator of the poems included in Part III of her 1983 collection of poems within The Dead and the Living is Olds’ own voice, readers are able to trace her personal transformation from someone with a troubled childhood to a strong mother for her own children, specifically in how she aligns her personal development with

The description of the tree and the birds is a metaphor for her and her ex-lovers, respectively, that reveals her feelings of helpless in the process of aging. The personification of the tree as it “stands” and “knows” confirms that the tree metaphor for the speaker’s experiences (9, 10). Just as a tree cannot control the seasons that it goes through, the speaker cannot control the process of aging and the subsequent loss of beauty she experiences with it. The poem’s use of the adjective “lonely” to describe the tree further contributes to its gloomy tone (9). The metaphor continues by emphasizing the point that the speaker never got to truly know her lovers.

Recently, I read a blog in the Huffington Post written by Max Mutchnick, the co-creator of “Will and Grace,” entitled “My Daughters Have No Mother.” The title of the article immediately piqued my curiosity. After all, how is it biologically possible to have a daughter without a mother? Sure, I have heard of children enduring tragedies and losing a mother or even cases of mothers abandoning their kids, but to have no mother―impossible.

It comes forth as though the young one grows breaks free and the old woman is left to wither alone. Nancy Chodorow defines this phenomenon as reproduction of mothering, a cyclical continuity from mother to daughter and then to the daughter’s daughter and so on (as already discussed in the first two chapters). To understand this autobiographical poem by Anne Sexton one has to know a little about Anne Sexton herself. She was born in 1928.

When the woman first looks at her reflection, whether it be in the mirror or the lake, she sees a young girl. However, as the girl continues to go back and look at her reflection, she starts to see an old woman staring back at her. This finally makes it clear why the woman is so turned off by her reflection. She is going through a time in her life where she is rapidly aging, and she does not want to admit it or face the facts. The use of the phrases ‘over and over” and “day after day”, show the repetition and the cyclical aspects of life. These repetitive phrases also show time passing, which makes sense in a coming of age poem. The use of different metaphors shows that no matter what way you look at it, aging is inevitable. This transformation also mirrors (just like the title) the act of growing old and changing. The only characters and hints of gender in the poem are feminine, which leads the reader to believe that aging is especially horrifying for women. The structure of the poem is very telling as well. The fact that there are just two stanzas goes along with the fact that there are two broad categories of age, young and old. The poem is made up of short sentences for the most part, which lends a hand to the idea that small moments make up a person’s large life. Overall, the poem uses simple descriptions and metaphor, along with structure to portray it’s message of the pain associated with transformation and coming of