![]() The love shown for the mother and the mother's reciprocal pride in her offspring can be understood no matter what part of the world the reader is from. Motherhood, after all, is a human condition. The poem makes allusions to Indian culture that are easily related to any society. No matter to whom the poet refers, the speaker is a mother, recounting her life experiences. This poem was written before the poet conceived her son, which supports the assumption that she describes her own mother, who had given birth to a son and several daughters and was a widow, as is the speaker in the poem. ![]() ![]() Indeed, Vazirani used the name Maya to denote her mother in previous poems. Reetika Vazirani's poem "Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta" focuses on a mother figure, very possibly the poet's own mother. ![]()
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