“To a Daughter Leaving Home” is a great poem from both a daughter and a mother's perspective which can relate to going off to college, moving out of the house, or getting married. The poem reflects a mother's view as she watches her daughter pedal toward her future. The poem highlights the emotion of the mother watching her daughter as she grows and eventually leaves home. The audience is able to see the relationship between the mother and daughter as she helps her daughter learn how to ride a bike into watching her daughter wave goodbye, the progression of childhood to independence.
There are many uses of literary devices in this poem which helps the audience break down each word that the author expressed. The voice of the poem is a mother who explains how special it was to teach her daughter how to ride a bike and how quickly time passes and how easily time can be lost. The poem is an extended metaphor where learning how to ride a bike represents the mother preparing the daughter to be on her own. There is direction and tone when the author uses the words “wobble, thud, and …show more content…
“Loping along, beside you” (3-4) which shows the mother giving the daughter guidance and keeping her safe as the daughter rides next to her. “When you pulled ahead” (8-9) the daughter is now riding ahead of her mother, which also symbolizes the daughter starting to explore on her own. “With distance” (17) the daughter is further away, riding by herself showing independance. “Hair flapping behind you” (21-22) the mother can only see her daughter's hair as she gets further and further, which the mother realizes her daughter has grown where she does not need her mother as much. Syntax is used in this poem because the end of each line is broken, like a mother holding in her tears as she watches her daughter grow. Choppy lines help create a deeper meaning and more dramatic
There are many uses of literary devices in this poem which helps the audience break down each word that the author expressed. The voice of the poem is a mother who explains how special it was to teach her daughter how to ride a bike and how quickly time passes and how easily time can be lost. The poem is an extended metaphor where learning how to ride a bike represents the mother preparing the daughter to be on her own. There is direction and tone when the author uses the words “wobble, thud, and …show more content…
“Loping along, beside you” (3-4) which shows the mother giving the daughter guidance and keeping her safe as the daughter rides next to her. “When you pulled ahead” (8-9) the daughter is now riding ahead of her mother, which also symbolizes the daughter starting to explore on her own. “With distance” (17) the daughter is further away, riding by herself showing independance. “Hair flapping behind you” (21-22) the mother can only see her daughter's hair as she gets further and further, which the mother realizes her daughter has grown where she does not need her mother as much. Syntax is used in this poem because the end of each line is broken, like a mother holding in her tears as she watches her daughter grow. Choppy lines help create a deeper meaning and more dramatic