The word remember is repeated a few times toward the end of this poem. The mother wanted her children to remember “…my sweat, my pain, and my despair…” (36) Also she wanted them to remember, “…how the strong in struggle and strife, still bars you the way and denies you life, but keep moving forward breaking down bars, look ever upward at the sun and the stars…” (44-48). She suffered a great deal of pain from the beatings and the loneliness of slavery and exhaustion from working and toweling the soil all day. These things brought her great sorrow, but she still had her vision which helped her and gave her the strength to motivate herself and her children to do the same and continue on with their heads held high till they reached freedom and lived out her
The word remember is repeated a few times toward the end of this poem. The mother wanted her children to remember “…my sweat, my pain, and my despair…” (36) Also she wanted them to remember, “…how the strong in struggle and strife, still bars you the way and denies you life, but keep moving forward breaking down bars, look ever upward at the sun and the stars…” (44-48). She suffered a great deal of pain from the beatings and the loneliness of slavery and exhaustion from working and toweling the soil all day. These things brought her great sorrow, but she still had her vision which helped her and gave her the strength to motivate herself and her children to do the same and continue on with their heads held high till they reached freedom and lived out her