What is the meaning of this poem ?
What do you think it is?
MOTHER, DIVING
The high diving board at the open-air pool
taunted my Mother like a tongue. While young boys
leapt from the first board, clenched like stones,
she held herself in by the pool-rail.
Then one day she just shrugged off the shallows,
strode like Johnny Weismuller to the deep end.
I had no idea what she was climbing towards
but she reached the top, balanced above
the craning necks, and stretched. A short run
and she sprang into the charged air,
making new shapes for herself: twisting
and turning like a dolphin, plunging into water -
a guillemot, sending out relentless waves
that will keep on nudging me off balance.
Andrew Forster
We had an exam ii wrote something like this:
Ii thought the poem was about a mother who had a child and went thru alot in her life, and faced loads of difficulties and had no support but she managed to prove everyone wrong and made herself proud. sumin like that. I didn't think the actual poem was about the mother diving. i thought the diving experience was ment to show the review of the mothers life
Thank you
JUST WRITE WHAT YOU THINK THE POEM IS ABOUT.
Thanks
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What do you think it is?
MOTHER, DIVING
The high diving board at the open-air pool
taunted my Mother like a tongue. While young boys
leapt from the first board, clenched like stones,
she held herself in by the pool-rail.
Then one day she just shrugged off the shallows,
strode like Johnny Weismuller to the deep end.
I had no idea what she was climbing towards
but she reached the top, balanced above
the craning necks, and stretched. A short run
and she sprang into the charged air,
making new shapes for herself: twisting
and turning like a dolphin, plunging into water -
a guillemot, sending out relentless waves
that will keep on nudging me off balance.
Andrew Forster
We had an exam ii wrote something like this:
Ii thought the poem was about a mother who had a child and went thru alot in her life, and faced loads of difficulties and had no support but she managed to prove everyone wrong and made herself proud. sumin like that. I didn't think the actual poem was about the mother diving. i thought the diving experience was ment to show the review of the mothers life
Thank you
JUST WRITE WHAT YOU THINK THE POEM IS ABOUT.
Thanks
x