Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta Summary
Reetika Vazirani

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Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta Summary

Reetika Vazirani's poem “Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta” focuses on a mother figure, very possibly the poet's own mother. Indeed, Vazirani used the name Maya to denote her mother in previous poems. This poem was written before the poet conceived her son, which supports the assumption that she describes her own mother, who had given birth to a son and several daughters and was a widow, as is the speaker in the poem. No matter to whom...

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