How are the central ideas of the two poems similar?
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The golden brooch my mother woreShe 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 meThe thing she took into
the grave! - That courage like a rock, which
sheHas no more need of, and I have.
O Both poems focus on being the son of a mother
who had a hard life.
O Both poems use staircases as metaphors for the
journey of life.
O. Both poems focus on mothers who taught their
children how to live with courage.