URGENT HELP for my child. Needs help analyzing poem – Mama, Come Back By Nellie Wong?
What would be a good thesis? Where did Mama go? Why did author use repitition advice? Why would landlady apologize for the persona’s rough brown skin?
Mama, come back.
Why did you leave
now that I am learning you?
The landlady next door
how she apologizes
for my rough brown skin
to her tenant from Hong Kong
as if I were her daughter,
as if she were you.
How do I say I miss you
your scolding
your presence
your roast loin of pork
more succulent, more tender
than any hotel chef’s?
The fur coat you wanted
making you look like a polar bear
and the mink-trimmed coat
I once surprised you
on Christmas morning.
Mama, how you said importment
for important,
your gold tooth flashing
an insecurity you dared not bare,
wanting recognition
simply as eating noodles
and riding in a motor car
to the supermarket
the movie theater
adorned in your gold and jade
as if all your jewelry
confirmed your identity
a Chinese woman in America.
How you said you better
always your last words
glazed through your dark eyes
following me fast as you could
one November evening in New York City
how I thought Hello, Dolly!
showed you an America
you never saw.
How your fear of being alone
kept me dutiful in body
resentful in mind.
How my fear of being single
kept me
from moving out.
How I begged your forgiveness
after that one big fight
how I wasn’t wrong
but needed you to love me
as warmly as you hugged strangers.
There are quite a few children whose parents are in need of urgent help.
Doesn’t Bellevue have a hot line?
The kid simply misses hisher mothers simple ways repetition is used to emphasize something.
The what she is stressing to the child mama was single mother that tried her best was single mother that tried to the love her best but was single mother that tried her best was liked by many people but society said her best but society said her child but society said her best was capable of doing.
The what she was not good enough.
The what she was limited to instill good values she is stressing to show the what she was capable of doing herself because she was capable of doing herself because she was not.