Similarities And Differences In My Mother Pieced Quilts By Dolly Parton

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In “My Mother Pieced Quilts” written by Teresa Palomo Acosta and “Coat of Many Colors,” written by Dolly Parton, There are similarities and differences. Focusing on the speaker’s relationships with their mothers. In Acosta’s poem, she states, whether to put the lilac purple of easter against the / red plaid of winter-going-into-spring / whether to mix a yellow with blue and white and paint / the corpus Christi noon when my father held your hand / whether to shape a five-point star from the / somber black silk you wore to grandmother's funeral. However in the poem, Parton sings, And how my momma put the rags to use / There were rags of many colors / Every piece was small / And I didn't have a coat / And it was way down in the fall / Momma sewed the rags together / Sewin' every piece with love / She made my coat of many colors.