![]() ![]() Ninth stanza, the mother asks what the Parisians admire about the shop and the daughter responds it is the way they have kept their art business afloat. In turn, the daughter eats the Parisian food and will remain in the city and continue pursuing art. Direct allusion to Greek mythology in which Persephone eats the six seeds of Pomegranate and mud remain in Hades. Seventh stanza, the daughter brushes her mother off and tries to imbue the importance and value of the city by saying how tourists and Parisians love them (daughter and the boyfriend) but it can be inferred that this means nothing to the mother who views the city and inhabitants as transitory and incapable of love.Įight stanza, the food arrives and it is lavish and French. She speaks as if it is a lowly place unworthy of her daughter (or at least the daughter she used to know or thought she knew.) Sixth stanza, the mother describes where her daughter lives and works now which is the daughter's boyfriend's/artist's studio/shop. The diction here is important the mother "hazarded a motherly smile" with the implication that the conversation is uncomfortable and she is not content wit hher daughter's life. The mother makes an internal comment that "she wasn't " and here the diction could imply that the mother feels hesitant towards her daughter.įourth stanza, they kiss and the mother "peruse blighted child, this wary aristocratic mole." By describing her daughter in this manner, 'wary' implies hesitant of danger, 'aristocratic' that her daughter is know seen as/perceives herself to be/dresses as if she is of a higher stature, and 'mole' could mean a duplicitous nature.įifth stanza, the mother asks how the daughter is, hazardly mind you, but restrains herself form what she actually wants to say which is why her daughter would ever choose to live her life as a model for an artist. Third stanza, the daughter apologizes for being late and throws her cape off and slides off into the chair. Second stanza, the daughter makes her way to the mother crossing the parquet and the mother notices she is "dressed in all gray." The color of the daughter's clothes here could symbolize the death of emotion, or the 'death' of the daughter the mother once knew. ![]() In the first stanza, the mother is waiting for her daughter to arrive and when she does she notices differences in her daughter's appearance - "thinner.mannered gauntness.silvery cape." The stanza ends with an italicized "What's this" as if to imply the mother doesn't even recognize her own daughter anymore. However, in this modern version Demeter (the mother) has found Persephone (the daughter) enamored by the Underworld (the city of Paris and all it has to offer.) This poem alludes to the Greek mythology and the story of Persephone and Demeter in order to depict a troubled relationship between a mother and a daughter.
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