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Mother poems are one of a number of subsets of family poems,
relating to different members of the family. Some Australian mother poems are
also memorial poems addressed to a dead mother, as with William Gay’s ‘To My
Mother’ and Katherine Gallagher’s ‘My Mother’s Garden’, which she revisits
after her mother’s death. Tom Shapcott’s ‘For Dorothy My Mother’ looks back
over the life of his ninety-year-old mother, recently deceased. In Geoff
Page’s rather less reverential ‘My Mother’s Letters’ there remains the question
of what he should do with ‘five decades worth of admonitions’.
Gardening seems often to feature in mother poems, with another poem by Katherine Gallagher, ‘My Mother’, also focusing on her love for her garden. In his ‘Letter home’, Michael Brennan also remembers his mother in her garden. Other poems by sons written in tribute to their mothers include Arthur Adams’ ‘To the Best of Women, My Mother’ and David Rowbotham’s ‘Mothers’, a more general tribute to their endurance and continuing love.
Daughters, however, often have more problematic relationships with their mothers, as is evident in Dorothy Porter’s ‘My Mother’. David Campbell also provides a wonderful short mother poem treating this relationship in his ‘Mothers and Daughters’, in which the daughters ‘mock their anxious mothers/ With their mothers’ eyes.’ It is usually daughters, however, who have to pick up the pieces when their mothers become ill. An excellent example of this is provided by Rhyll McMasters’ sequence of poems entitled ‘My Mother and I Become Victims of a Stroke’.
Some mother poems deal with famous mothers from history, as in Rodney Hall’s ‘The Mother’, about the classical figure Medea, notorious for killing her own children in an act of revenge against their father who has taken another woman as his wife. Geoffrey Lehmann’s ‘Mother’ is spoken by another notorious classical figure, the Roman emperor Nero, who voices all his resentments against his now dead mother. Going back even further, in Dorothy Porter’s ‘Mother’s Noseless Thief’, from her verse novel Akhenaten, the future pharaoh also rails against his mother who he believes does not love him.
Gardening seems often to feature in mother poems, with another poem by Katherine Gallagher, ‘My Mother’, also focusing on her love for her garden. In his ‘Letter home’, Michael Brennan also remembers his mother in her garden. Other poems by sons written in tribute to their mothers include Arthur Adams’ ‘To the Best of Women, My Mother’ and David Rowbotham’s ‘Mothers’, a more general tribute to their endurance and continuing love.
Daughters, however, often have more problematic relationships with their mothers, as is evident in Dorothy Porter’s ‘My Mother’. David Campbell also provides a wonderful short mother poem treating this relationship in his ‘Mothers and Daughters’, in which the daughters ‘mock their anxious mothers/ With their mothers’ eyes.’ It is usually daughters, however, who have to pick up the pieces when their mothers become ill. An excellent example of this is provided by Rhyll McMasters’ sequence of poems entitled ‘My Mother and I Become Victims of a Stroke’.
Some mother poems deal with famous mothers from history, as in Rodney Hall’s ‘The Mother’, about the classical figure Medea, notorious for killing her own children in an act of revenge against their father who has taken another woman as his wife. Geoffrey Lehmann’s ‘Mother’ is spoken by another notorious classical figure, the Roman emperor Nero, who voices all his resentments against his now dead mother. Going back even further, in Dorothy Porter’s ‘Mother’s Noseless Thief’, from her verse novel Akhenaten, the future pharaoh also rails against his mother who he believes does not love him.
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
Poems For Mother 2014 Pics Images Photos Pictures
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