Analysis of Use of Metaphor in To A Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan

Analysis of Use of Metaphor in To A Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan

Introduction

To A Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan is a poem that narrates a mother's thoughts as she thinks about the time when she taught her daughter to ride a bicycle (Belmont, 2005). The mother thinks about the manner in which the daughter enjoyed the sensation of riding the bicycle and rode farther away; completely oblivious of the mother's increasing concern for the daughter's safety as the distance between the mother and the daughter continued ...