the poet compares her mother with a late winter's moon. winters are symbolic of an end of cycle( the end of the year) and here it symbolizes the end of life. just like a late winter's moon lacks warmth, brightness, the poet's mother too lacks strength as she was sleeping motionless in the car, brightness as she is pale and she's old and aging. so the cold, dim moon is symbolizing death.
briefly explain the four phases of the moon
When the Earth, Sun and Moon are in line an eclipse can occur.
When the sun and the moon are exactly in line but the sun is partially concealed by the moon that is called a Lunar eclipse.
It's the line where part of the moon doesn't light the night. and, if you look, that line serves a purpose of telling what kind of moon night it is without looking at a calendar.
Late september.
Mick Winters has written: 'Full moon'
briefly explain the four phases of the moon
No. The orbit of the Moon about the Earth does not lie exactly in the plane of the Earth's orbit about the Sun, so most of the time the Moon goes a little "over" or "under" the point at which it would be directly in line with the Sun.
the moon flys away from the earth
When the Earth, Sun and Moon are in line an eclipse can occur.
Twilight
When the sun and the moon are exactly in line but the sun is partially concealed by the moon that is called a Lunar eclipse.
the moon causes tides, which are waves. Please someone further explain how the moon does it.
It would be hard to find a line of symmetry on a moon, as it is likely to be irregularly shaped.
When the moon is either 180 degrees from the sun, or aligned with it. That is, if you could draw a straight line from the sun to the earth and out into space beyond, if the moon lands anywhere on that line, you have spring tides. In that alignment, you'll have either a new moon or a full moon.
The moon and earth are always exactly in line; any two points define a line. When the earth moon and sun are all exactly in line, that is different. When this happens it is either a solar eclipse or it is a lunar eclipse.
It's the line where part of the moon doesn't light the night. and, if you look, that line serves a purpose of telling what kind of moon night it is without looking at a calendar.