Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
How does Shire describe home in the poem, Conversations About Home, from the collection, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth?
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Shire describes home as "the mouth of a shark", which symbolizes a place filled with danger that no one can control (24). It is a violent place in which no one can survive, and the only rational thing to do is escape.
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth