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How does the last line affect the interpretation of the poem.
Have you read the poem?
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What is different about that last line that doesn't occur anywhere else in that poem?
Yes I have read this poem and I think I have the answer is it because the speaker wants to be strong like the grandmothers. Is there more to add to this?
Maybe the speaker doesn't want to be like grandma. Maybe the speaker is acknowledging there is a difference in time and the result is that she (the speaker) is not strong in the same sense as grandma was. This last line certainly opens up the entire poem to different interpretations.
The entire poem EXCEPT the last line describes the grandmothers and and describes them as strong and right and industrious ... all the positive things.
The last line starts with "I" -- that's very different -- shifts the focus. And then there's the negative. The last line is a complete turn-around. Is the author wishing she could be like her grandmothers? Is the author trying to figure out why she is not like her grandmothers? Or is the author making a subtle point about the great differences in generations?