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Q & A: A Sonnet For My Incomparable Mother

Q & A for 'A Sonnet For My Incomparable Mother'

1. What qualities has the daughter imbibed from her mother?

The poet F.Joanna has imbibed qualities like sacrifice, devotion and love from her mother.


2. "You let me seperate and let me free." - What is the meaning of the line?

When she grew up, her mother made her daughter independent of her by giving her a life partner. She is no more dependent on her mother.


3. Pick out the pairs of rhyimg words from the poem.

The rhyming words are

  • Know-Ago
  • Tears-Years
  • Security-Free
  • Be-Me


4. What does the poet want to emphasize in the last two lines?

In the last two lines the poet emphasizes that she is trying her best to be the same kind of mother that her mother was to her.

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