My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride. Sharad Vivek Sagar
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The quote, “My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride.” is a well known line from the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. It is a very emotional poem that tells a story about a talking raven. This poem is also known as the raven poem. There is a lot of symbolism in this poem such as how the raven talks about his old friend who once he saw that he was near death.

Poe uses his art to show the reader that death is inevitable and how we should live our lives to the fullest because one day we will all die. The first line of this poem reveals a lot about the author Poe. It shows that he has no regrets about his life and his upbringing because he knows what he got from both his parents and he knows what they taught him.

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