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Our reading suggests that the poem «mother», by Carlos Oquendo de Amat, exposes a retrospective vision of the speaker, as if he were retreating to an idealised, childlike and happy past in which the mother figure offered him protection, affection, security and taught him to speak. Through similes and metaphors, it is argued that the mother shares characteristics with living nature, but her absence in the present time affects the speaker; therefore, he resorts to the word to make up for this affective and communicative lack, but he is confronted with the (im)possibility of verbal language.

This article analyzes the poem «Casa de cuervos» («House of Crows»), by Blanca Varela, and focuses on the bond between mother and son, in relation to the effect it has on the female lyrical voice in the physical (her body), affective and spiritual (her soul) planes. The mother feels guilt for having brought her son into a hostile world, she recognizes the similarities between him and herself. The son suffers from her progressive distancing, but ends up accepting it, since it is an inevitable separation derived from the son's independence. In that sense, her identity is conditioned by the tense experience of motherhood.