"My Mother's Face" by Brenda Serotte

I think this poem will be about someone reflecting about their mother's face. This poem says that this women is getting ready for work and she sees her mother's face looking at her in the mirror. Her mother cries and sighs and she states that if her mother had been silient she would of surely thought it would have been her in the mirror. Serotte uses imagery (red frizzled hair wild in all directions),and personification (smile weighted with loss). The shift occurs in line 12 when she says that her mother started crying without warning. The title means that she sees her mother's face in the mirror and it resembles her own. The theme is mother's are emotional about their children.

I thought the whole time she was talking about herself until she said that that if she would have been silent she would have thought it would have been her. I like this poem even though it's random. Her mother sounds straight up ugly.