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The best gift someone can give you is a part of themselves.
"Yet, it is something I could spare."
The daughter could have give the brooch (a physical thing her mother gave her) up if she needed.
"That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, I have."
The daughter thinks that her mother should have given the daughter her courage (non-physical/ personality trait) because the mother had no need of it anymore. Also, she envies her mother's strength.
1) What does the daughter wish her mother had left her?
2) Like all lyric poems this one expresses a strong emotion. How would you describe this feeling?
3) Where is the mother now?
Emily Lejman
Hannah Watts
Amber Lewis
By: Edna St. Vincent Millay
In 'The Courage My Mother Had', the daughter had been given her mother's brooch when she died. The daughter wanted more than that though, she wanted her mother's courage.
"The golden brooch my mother WORE, A
She left behind for me to WEAR; B
I have nothing I treasure MORE: A
Yet, it is something I could SPARE." B
"That courage like a rock."
The girl talks about how her mother had so much courage and her courage was unmoving, hard as a rock. In context, the girl envied her mother's courage.