It's about the constant battle between bad and good, it portrays the tale of Snow White and little red riding hood, this makes it almost fairy tale like...
it's about a mom who really wants a child but the mother dies in labour so the step mom looks after the child and the child almost turns on their mother for dying and leaving her with such a horrible step mom
i hope this helped, i am also doing this poem for english
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I disagree with this. I am studying "The Mother" as an unseen poem through my English literature GCSE course and on analyzing the poem have come to a different conclusion.
I believe "The Mother" is written on not just Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood but the story of Sleeping Beauty; thus explaining the "drops of blood that fell" as Sleeping Beauty's finger was pricked leading her to sleep for 100 years. I do not believe that the child turns against the mother. Yes Snow White's mother dies in labour and this is linked to "she's always dying early" but Snow White is not linked to the earlier section of the poem. The poem also links other fairy tale stories other than these three, you will find that most popular princesses from tales have a reference in the poem.
innate and passive aggressive tendency towards the second law of thermodynamic is the ultimate demonstration of thanatos in the human complexity.
A narrative poem uses the voice of the narrator, and tells a story. The poem "Mother to Son" is a poem about a mothers advice to her son, using a stairway as a metaphor for life. Because it had a specific narrator and tells a story, it is a narrative poem.
In my opinion, poem 'child and Mother's Eugene Field was complete with the love between a child and the mother love,caring between a mother and a child...the poem is really meaningful and superb...
"Mother to Son" is a poem written by Langston Hughes when he was 21 years old. The poem is a short narrative.
What do you think the poem is about
In the poem "The Mother" by Liz Lochhead, the mother is portrayed as a figure who has sacrificed her own dreams and desires for the sake of her family. She is depicted as selfless, devoted, and resilient, embodying the complexities and challenges of motherhood.
LIZ LOCHHEAD has written: 'COLOUR OF BLACK AND WHITE'
Liz Lochhead was born on December 26, 1947, in Motherwell, Scotland, UK.
Liz Lochhead has: Played Herself - Poem reader in "Full House" in 1972. Played herself in "Book Four" in 1982. Played Pregnant Woman in "Play Me Something" in 1989. Played herself in "Ex-S" in 1990. Played Herself - Panelist in "Late Review" in 1994. Played Librarian in "Small Faces" in 1996. Played Liz Lochhead in "Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress" in 2013.
innate and passive aggressive tendency towards the second law of thermodynamic is the ultimate demonstration of thanatos in the human complexity.
David Lochhead died in 1999.
Douglas Lochhead was born in 1922.
Douglas Lochhead died in 2011.
David Lochhead was born in 1936.
Andy Lochhead was born on 1941-03-09.
Kenneth Lochhead died on 2006-07-15.
Kenneth Lochhead was born on 1926-05-22.