Urban legend like

I believe that the thorn in Wordsworth's The Thorn represents Martha Ray's never-ending sorrow. Like a stiff thorn that is not easily broken the sorrow of mourning her baby remains strong within her. I felt the rhyme to be one of spoken poetry versus the song like poems we have been reading, almost like telling a old urban legend. In The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman we can see the same theme of despair like many of Wordsworth other works and also of having to mourn a child however, in this poem the woman mourns because she will die and leave her child in another woman's care. Very interesting twist of portraying how women suffer in different ways when they become separated from their children. Like The Thorn, this story also reminds me of an old urban legend.