Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son”
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Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son” by Chalbert
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SOAPSTone:
Speaker: A mother with experience
Occasion: For her son not to give up even though things seem terrible.Life isn’t going to be easy.
Audience:Mother to son
Purpose:To persuade. but there are two ways you could look at the poem, in the son’s eyes or the reader’s. In the son’s eyes the mot...
Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son” Annotated
Well, son, I'll tell you:
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.
But all the time
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.
Don't you set down on the steps.
Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
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.