The poem, “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver”, by Edna St. Viencent Millay is about a mother’s love to her son. The son is telling the story about his relationship to his mother. How his mother used to take care of him, and how strong she was.
Even though she knew that she’s going to die but she only think about her son.
In the story we can see that his mother feels upset about not having enough money to feed her son and buy him new clothes, to feed her son and buy him new clothes, “ There’s nothing in the house but a loaf-end of rye, and a harp with woman’s head nobody will buy”, by late fall his mother still can’t give him clothes to wear and her son is so skinny because he has no food to eat.
When the winter arrive the son still has no clothes to wear to school, although they are poor the son still feels happy with his mother, as winter because very cold, none would buy the harp, so the mother had to burn all chair one chair to keep them warm.
In the middle of the night before Christmas he cried, as he was upset. Suddenly his mother staring at him deeply and lovingly when he woke up. Finally the writer’s mother got some threads and started to make him some clothes.
While mother is weaving all day and night and working very hard to make clothes for him. “ And her hands in the harp-string frozen dead”.
At last, his mother will die, while woving clothes for him. Next to her, she left quite a lot of clothes for his son.
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