Plz will mark brainist the world in miniature on my bedroom shelf a venetian gondola bumps against a german music box steers past a lucky cat from tokyo, round the pewter soldiers from london, and stops for lunch at the plastic eiffel tower.   mom travels for work a lot. i miss her. but each time she adds something new to my shelf to remind me i’m always with her. how do the things on the shelf affect the meaning of this poem? they symbolize the speaker's desire to explore the unknown. they represent the speaker's respect for his mother's hard work. they symbolize the sense of loss the speaker feels in his mother's absence.   they represent the idea that the speaker is always in his mother's thoughts. i think its b