Commonlit the possessive

The poem in the picture is not complete, here is the complete version i found:

THE POSSESSIVE by Sharon Olds

My daughter — as if I

owned her — that girl with the

hair wispy as a frayed bellpull

has been to the barber, that knife grinder,

and had the edge of her hair sharpened.

Each strand now cuts  

both ways. The blade of new bangs

hangs over her red-brown eyes

like carbon steel.  

All the little

spliced ropes are sliced.

The curtain of

dark paper-cuts veils the face that

started from next to nothing in my body —  

My body. My daughter. I’ll have to find  

another word. In her bright helmet

she looks at me as if across a

great distance.

Distant fires can be

glimpsed in the resin light of her eyes:

the watch fires of an enemy, a while before

the war starts.

From the poem, we can understand the frustration of the mother and how possessive she is towards her daughter and her feelings towards her daughter's new haircut. At the end, she wonders at the look of defiance she notes in her daughter's eyes.

The author uses imagery below to describe how her daughter's hair looks like and how the hair stays on her face.

"that girl with the

hair wispy as a frayed bellpull

has been to the barber, that knife grinder,

and had the edge of her hair sharpened.

Each strand now cuts  

both ways."

The author uses words like "My daughter — as if I

owned her" to show that she does not in fact own her daughter and her daughter has her freedom to do what she wants.

The author also uses simile here The blade of new bangs  hangs over her red-brown eyes   like carbon steel to compare how the blade of new bangs are like carbon steel.

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