Love, it is showed in many different ways. Love can simply be a mother to son relationship, or to lust and have passion towards another human. Love can be hard but it also can be pleasurable. Everyone has love its just sometimes hard to show it, so what other way could someone show love? Actions and words are two of the main things. You could simply show love as a mother in telling your son some wise words about life such as how in the poem Mother to Son did. Or you could tell your lover that she or he is as beautiful as a flower and use your actions with passion such a the poem Flower of Love showed.
The poem Mother to Son is about a mother trying to teach her son perseverance to life, this is demonstrated by her comparing stairs to life
…show more content…
The poem has 20 lines, it has a lot of sentences starting with the letter A or the word and and a lot of in’ at the end of the sentence. It repeats the first sentence in the last sentence. It kind of has a Didactic type, maybe a little bit of song type and free verse a lot, a bit of a puente. The type of rhyme the poem has is a little of repetition, it is a ACD EFGG FGGI JKLM NOPB rhyme scheme. There are 120 syllables in the poem and each line ranges between 3-11, the most common are 4, 11,10,5, and 6 syllables. It has no visual effect or shape to the poem. It lastly includes lots of sound devices in the poem. It includes Consonance, “Don’t you set down on the steps oooo. Cause you finds its kinder hard (ddd). I’se been a-climbin’ on, and reachin’ landin’s, and turnin’ corners. (nnnnnnnnnn.)” Assonance, “Don’t you set down on the steps (oooo). Where there ain’t been no light (eeeeee). And Dialect, “I’se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin’s, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So, boy, don't you turn back.” So both the technical and meaning of poem both connect in the way to show the type and message of the …show more content…
Although the two poems are very different there are a few things that make them alike. For example, both poems show signs of love. In Mother to Son, it shows love in the way of motherly love giving advice to her son. In Flower of Love, it shows love toward someones lover. They both are trying to give off a certain tone which of both are happy, uplifting tones. They both use metaphors in order to convey their main idea, for MTS has a metaphor of stairs saying that life isn't going to be a crystal stair but instead one with tacks and splinters sticking out which she means that life isn't going to be easy you will come across obstacles to overcome. And in FOL it has a metaphor of a flower, to show the idea of her lovers beauty like as a flower. They both include lots of imagery also, while ones imagery is off a beaten up staircase and another one is off a beautiful flower. Kind of funny the difference of those two! They both symbolize something also. Both which also symbolism a human or human life. MTS symbolizes the crystal stair as the perfect life and the beaten up stair as real life where you will have to go through hard times to get to the top. And FOL symbolizes a flowers beauty to her lovers beauty. They both use repetition and rhyme through out the poem. It uses dialect also, while in MTS the dialect is somewhat southern and almost uneducated but in FOL the dialect is proper and very well english/grammar. They both
Another fitting quote from the text is something the mother says at the end of the poem, ¨So boy, don’t you turn back. [...] Don’t you fall now For I’se still goin’, honey, I’se still climbin’, And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair¨ (Hughes lines 14-20) This shows the Mother's purpose in telling this story. The mother says to the son, using her stair metaphor, to keep persevering through life, as she had.
In the metaphoric sense they endured the travel from their homeland to the unknown, which was brave of them. Mother to Son starts off with the mother referencing to the past by saying “Well son, I’ll tell you:/ Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” She is alluding to her past and how it has been tumultuous, but she is still
First of alll, the poem is divided into nine stanzas, where each one has four lines. In addition to that, one can spot a few enjambements for instance (l.9-10). This stylistic device has the function to support the flow of the poem. Furthermore, it is crucial to take a look at the choice of words, when analysing the language.
Each stanza is composed of words that present a logical flow of growth through the entire poem. The words in the poem do not rhyme and the lines are different lengths.
The author of “Mother to Son”, Langston Hughes, displays the attitude of hopefulness in the poem to show that life will not be easy for the son, but he should never give up because the mother did not. The author uses literary devices like figurative language, imagery, and diction. By using these literary devices, Hughes creates a sympathetic mood in the poem in order to emotionally draw in the reader.
The mother describes all the different obstacles that can stand in the way along the path of life, but tells her son to continue to climb. “Mother to Son” has been referenced in speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama as pieces of human inspiration to continue moving forward even during the tough times (Miller, 425). Langston’s poem represents the relationship between a mother and her child to try to be a support system during difficult times to keep them fighting for more in their life. King and Obama used this same poem to speak to human nature and encourage the movement past difficult events in society (Miller, 425). Langston’s poem shows how it was relevant when it was written, but it is still relevant today since it pulls at who we are as
Imagine you were the rose trying to grow in concrete; would you have made it out or die trying or maybe you just gave up. So think about it, what would you have really done? The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” is about a rose that grew in concrete a metaphor that shows that you have to get past your problems to succeed. And the poem “Mother to Son” is about a mother explaining how hard life is a metaphor. Both poems share the theme of You have to rise above the obstacles, but the way the authors developed the theme was similar and different.
Rhyme-The last words of line one and line three of each stanza rhyme. The last words of line two and line four of each stanza also rhyme. The rhyming words contribute to the rhythm and flow of the poem.
staying the course. In the poem “Mother to Son” a mother tells of her persistence through life’s obstacles, encouraging her son not to give up.
I believe that the structure of this poem allows for the speaker to tell a narrative which further allows him to convey his point. The use of enjambment emphasizes this idea as well as provides a sense of flow throughout the entirety of a poem, giving it the look and feel of reading a story. Overall, I believe this piece is very simplistic when it comes to poetic devices, due to the fact that it is written as a prose poem, this piece lacks many of the common poetic devices such as rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and metaphors. However, the tone, symbolism, allusion and imagery presented in the poem, give way to an extremely deep and complicated
The mother tells her son that life has not always been easy for her, yet she is still carrying on. This poem “Mother to Son” has many poetry elements within the poem. The poem shows the message of staying hopeful through the obstacles one may encounter throughout life. Hughes uses metaphors,
Form and meaning are what readers need to analyze to understand the poem that they are evaluating. In “Mother to Son”, his form of writing that is used frequently, is free verse. There is no set “form”, but he gets his point across in a very dramatic way. The poem is told by a mother who is trying to let her son know that in her life, she too has gone through many frustrations just like what her son is going through. The tone of this poem is very dramatic and tense because she illustrates the hardships that she had to go through in order to get where she is today. She explains that the hardships that she has gone through in her life have helped her become the person that she has come to be. Instead of Hughes being ironic, like he does in some of his poems, he is giving the reader true background on the mother’s life. By introducing the background, this helps get his point across to the reader in a very effective way. In this poem there are many key words which help portray the struggles that the mother is trying to express to her son. The poem is conveyed in a very “down to earth” manner. An example of this is, “Life for me ain’t been a crystal stair (462).” This quote shows the reader that the mom is trying to teach the son a lesson with out sugar coating it. She wants her son to know that throughout her life has had many obstacles to overcome, and that he too is going to have to get through his own obstacles no matter how frustrating it is. Her tone throughout the poem is stern telling the boy, “So boy, don’t turn your back (462).” The poems tone almost makes the reader believe that the mother is talking to them, almost as if I am being taught a valuable lesson.
In “Mother to Son,” Hughes uses a worn staircase as an extended metaphor to parallel its flaws to the struggles of African Americans. The poem begins with a mother speaking to her son about the pressures of reality and telling him not to succumb. She tells her son, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” (Mother to Son “MS” line 2) to portray that her life is far from perfect like the stair of a white person. She describes her life as having “tacks and splinters….with boards torn up” (Hughes lines 3-5). These defects symbolize the problems in her life whether they were caused by her race or gender.
Every mother would like to see her child succeed in life. The following passage from the poem, "Mother to Son", by Langston Hughes demonstrates the love and concern a mother has for her son. She teaches him using her own life as an example; her life as a climb up a staircase. The imagery from the advice given in the stanza is explicit and poignant:
The ABAB rhyme scheme is a pattern that can be recognized by many individuals; therefore, it relates to the message that motivation is needed by everybody. Two ABAB rhyme schemes make up each stanza, which symbolizes the positivity and negativity that battle throughout the poem. Guest breaks the rhyme scheme once by rhyming “failure” with “you”. This strategic action emphasizes the different methods that negative individuals use to destroy a person’s ambition. Internal rhyme is included in many lines of the poem to create fluidity and sound pleasing to an audience. The poem is composed of a qualitative iambic meter, giving the syllables a sound of da DUM. A pleasing flow is observed through the fairly consistent line length and line syllable number. The lines throughout the poem end in both stressed and unstressed syllables, referencing the battle between discouragement and