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The Courage That My Mother Had
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.
Which sentence BEST describes the theme of this poem?
A. Personal strengths are more important than valuable objects.
B. Only a daughter can truly relate to her mother’s feelings.
C. Having a golden brooch is better than nothing.
D. Unlike jewelry, traits such as courage are not valued.
What is A (Personal strengths are more important than valuable objects)