Part one of term paper
“A Woman Mourned by Daughters”, by Adrienne Rich, is a very descriptive poem in which two women are speaking to their dead mother. There are several parts to this poem starting from the when the mother dies, and moving gradually backward to when the daughters were young girls. It begins with the daughters sitting in their mothers kitch ...

Part two of term paper
... by the power she still carries over them, even though she is no longer living. They proceed in speaking about her as an elderly woman, weak and frail, “ a straw blown on the bed” (Lines 11-14). The describe her on her death bed. “ Like a corpse pulled from the sea”. In the fourth section (Lines 15-20) they discuss that what upsets them now that she is gone, isn't the fact that she died, it is all the things that she used to do to them. A knot forms in their throats (“what rise ...