The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried; Now granite in a granite hill. The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear; I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare. Oh, if instead she'd left to me The thing she took into the grave! - That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have. —“The Courage That My Mother Had,” Edna St. Vincent Milla Reread the poem. Look at the details in each stanza and write one to two sentences explaining the central idea of the poem.
The central idea of the poem is that the courage possessed by the speaker's mother is an invaluable and enduring quality that is passed down through generations, while material possessions hold little significance in comparison.
