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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.

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