Mountain, oceans, ---------- call my own.
REFERENCE
(i) Poem: Woman Work
(ii) Poetess: Maya Angelou
CONTEXT
(i) Occurrence: Lines 26-28/28
(ii) Content: In this poem the poetess describes her disgust for domestic chores and love for Nature. She is fed up by looking after the children, buying and cooking food, and maintaining her house. So she longs for the blessings of Nature to give her power to bear this dull life.
EXPLANATION
In these lines the poetess expresses her inability to find any human being whom she can trust and call her own except Nature. She cannot call her husband own because she has always found him full of threats of separation or divorce. She cannot call her children own because they either do no obey her fully or show their inclination towards their father. Thus she has got tired of human beings. However, she can call objects and phenomena of Nature like mountains, oceans, leaves, stones, star shine and moon glow etc her own because
In these lines the poetess expresses her inability to find any human being whom she can trust and call her own except Nature. She cannot call her husband own because she has always found him full of threats of separation or divorce. She cannot call her children own because they either do no obey her fully or show their inclination towards their father. Thus she has got tired of human beings. However, she can call objects and phenomena of Nature like mountains, oceans, leaves, stones, star shine and moon glow etc her own because
"Nature did never betray the heart that loved her".
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