To A Daughter Leaving Home By Linda Pastan

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The poem To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan refers to a mother’s emotion about her daughter going away . Throughout the poem ,the narrator use the process of teaching the girl how to ride a bike as a metaphor in order to compare to empty-nest feeling that families go through whenever children leave the house .The use of details such as “the hair flapping/behind you like a /handkerchief waving/goodbye” create a perfect imagery of this complicated moment. This line touched me specially because I lived this moment when I left my parents in Brazil .There are interesting facts about the author life that can apply to this poem . Due to the time period in which the writer got married , the 50’s, she had to relinquish her desire to write in