To A Daughter Leaving Home Poem Summary

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Let it Go-“To a Daughter Leaving Home” “To a Daughter Leaving Home” ultimately describes a mother’s emotional state as her daughter starts peddling towards her future journey. The poem deeply emphasizes on the life of the daughter and on the hardships for the mother to watch, as her daughter is taking the leave by her side into the real world alone. With the use of literary devices such as imagery, symbolism and simile, the audience is introduced to the relationship between the mother and the daughter: showing the mother raising her daughter into a beautiful young lady, to her remarks the sweet moments they had together until giving her daughter the freedom to pursue her own destiny. Pastan adopted imagery to describe the daughter “wobbled
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