CAPE LITERATURES IN ENGLISH - Lorna Goodison poems

Objectives:
Poems

For my mother, May I Inherit Half Her Strength

Mother the Great Stone has to move
I am Becoming my mother
The Road of the Dread
Heartease 1

Blog interpretation of the thematic approach 'literary analysis'' to any of the poems listed.
Answer questions critically by providing substantiation for answers.
Identify techniques used and justify the use of them

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