The poem that i read was called Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. When i read the poem i realized how much the mother has gone through and what she has done to keep her son alive. It was pretty clear how the mother's life was. She says "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters And boards torn up And places with no carpet on the floor Bare." By thhis amount of writing it shows how her life has been and how there were always problems.
By the word splinters and tacks i was thinking how she probably could've been hurt and abused or maybe emotionally hurt. Also with the words boards torn up probably meant that her house living probably has never been the best. She probably had to live in a tiny house with one room and how maybe even that one room wasn't even pleasant. With the words Life for me ain't been no crystal chair it made me think that her life must've been really tough. She describes what she has gone through and her life really sad.
When I read the title of the book i thought that this poem was gonna be a mother finding her son or a mother talking about her getting a divorce or something else, but i never expected her to speak about her own life. She also talks about how he shouldn't give up on anything and to never back down to something that he wants to to do or he believes in. In a way i think that the Mother is saying to the Son don't screw up like me and don't go through a life like me because my life hasn't been a walk in the park. And I've been through so much just to get you a better life.
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