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Teriyaki
09-27-2011, 02:37 PM
Hello, everyone!

I have a question, what would you say the archetype would be for the mothers in the poems "Mother to Son" and "Brown Girl Dead"?

Thanks.
Teriyaki
09-28-2011, 01:19 AM
Anyone? :(
OrphanPip
09-28-2011, 01:26 AM
It's not very hard, what do you think the poems have in common?
Teriyaki
09-28-2011, 02:39 PM
Both mothers in each story have great wisdom. I need to encapsulate that in an archetype, but I can't think of a good one...
OrphanPip
09-28-2011, 04:46 PM
Both mothers in each story have great wisdom. I need to encapsulate that in an archetype, but I can't think of a good one...

Think on their class and ethnic origins. Folk wisdom perhaps plays a part in Mother to Son, but I don't think it's as significant in the other poem.