The poet wants us to see that even when walking shakily or stumbling that its not out of laziness. The rocking chair represents more than just a chair, the poet doesn’t want to be put in a nursing home, or bound to wheel chair, and not be able to continue living the life like she has been for as long as possible. Hold! Stop! Don’t pity me!Hold! Stop your sympathy!Understanding if you got it,Otherwise I’ll do without it! (5-8)As the poet has grown older, somethings have become a little more difficult, and wants us to know her wishes: “I will only ask one favor/ don’t bring me no rocking chair” (11-12). That the only way she wants us to interrupt her from her own thoughts is that if were genuinely interested and understand what she’s going through. But then she quickly lets us know that we don’t need to pretend were interested in her or her day or even feel sorry for her just because she’s elderly. Or even something that we have put up and pushed to the back of the shelf and forgotten.
So that a connection that could be made from just those two lines alone would be that looking at this older woman sitting alone, like something we want to put up and away from harm, so they couldn’t be hurt or bothered with.
The simile in this poem Maya compares herself to a bag sitting on a shelf.
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