Question

What does the “black shoe” metaphor in the poem represent?

• A. Her father’s physical appearance
• B. The confined, suffocating life the speaker led under her father’s shadow
• C. A symbol of mourning
• D. A symbol of escape

Answer 1

Answer:

B. The confined, suffocating life the speaker led under her father’s shadow

The “black shoe” symbolizes how the speaker lived trapped and constrained, like a foot inside a black shoe, under the psychological weight of her father’s memory.