Question

The reader of "The Courage That My Mother Had" can conclude that the speaker's mother has died. Which detail points to what conclusion?
A. she had great courage
B. she wore a golden brooch
C. she is now in granite hill
D. she is compared to granite
it is this poem “The Courage That My Mother Had” by Edna St.

Answer 1

What's your answer?

Answer 2

A and B are in past tense.
C is just plain nuts!
D is a symbolic possibility.


<b>The courage that my mother had</b>
Edna St. Vincent Millay

<i>The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.

The golden brooch my mother wore
She left behind for me to wear;
I have no thing I treasure more:
Yet, it is something I could spare.

Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the grave!—
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.</i>