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What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels in My Mother at Sixty Six?

What is the kind of pain and ache that the poet feels in My Mother at Sixty Six?

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  1. The poet is fearfully thinking of death. She is devastated by the sadness which has overcome her after looking at her mother on her way to the airport. As a poet, she is deeply aware of the inevitability of passing time. Her pain results from such inevitability.

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