Item 2 Read the poem. The Courage That My Mother Had by Edna St. Vincent Millay. 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. How do the second and third stanzas in "The Courage That My Mother Had" contribute to the poem's meaning? They highlight the speaker's various memories of the time she spent with her mother. They show that the speaker is grateful to wear her mother's brooch in celebration of her life. They emphasize the speaker's resentment toward her mother for leaving her behind with nothing. They explain that the speaker wishes she could exchange her mother's brooch for her mother's courage.