The Rose That Grew From Concrete Figurative Language

First, the poem “The Rose that Grew from concrete” uses Figurative Language (metaphor)to develop the theme of overcoming obstacles in life.For example, Tupac Shakur uses personification for a rose in “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” to develop the theme by using a rose for the poem and how it is said it was able to walk and breath and how it defied nature.

In the poem “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” by Tupac Shakur uses personification. It also uses metaphors to illustrate what is being compared in the story. It shows that how to grow and get past through things in order to accomplish it.

Throughout the poem, “Mother to Son,” the author further defends the theme by using figurative language. The poem is made up of metaphors such as, “life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” The mother compares to life as a staircase, where those more fortunate have an easy, safe path in life. Whereas those less fortunate, like herself, have a rather difficult path, with many drawbacks and barriers. Hughes also uses repetition of many phrases to emphasize the importance of the overall message.

The mother in “Mother to Son” however, does the opposite of what the father does in “Those Winter Sunday’s”, instead of keeping her silence the mother goes greatly into detail about how hard her life has been but at the same time she coveys a message to her son about climbing up the staircase of life, not giving up and trusting that things are just going to get better. This is shown when she says “So boy, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the steps, cause you find it’s kinder hard. Don’t you fall now—“(Line 15-18). Although the poem is told by the mother perspective we can tell that the mother comes from a poor background, as the imagery used by Langston Hughes reveals, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stairs.

People have different outlooks on life; some are positive and others are negative. In the poems “The Rose That Grew From Concrete” by Tupac Shakur and “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, both sides are shown to the reader. In “ The Rose That Grew From Concrete” Tupac writes about a rose that grew in concrete when nobody believed it could, and this shows that people should always believe in themselves and not to listen to the people saying they can't do something. In the poem “Fire and Ice” Frost says that the world is going to end because of all the hate. These poems can be compared and contrasted because they show some similar themes, as well as they both talk about hate, humanity, and have differences in the mood in which the poem is written.

The way the author of Mother to Son organizes and structures his writing helps the audience grasp the meaning and message quite easily. Firstly, readers can tell that the “mother” figure in this poem may indeed be from the southern regions just based off of the way she speaks, or otherwise known as diction and that can be seen in the line “I’se been a-climbin’ on” along with multiple other examples. Consequently, it may be difficult to grasp the meaning due to the way she speaks, but that is then otherwise resolved by the word choice the author uses and the metaphorical structure by comparing life to a staircase in the line “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” Lastly, the author proceeds to compare life to an imperfect process in the lines

This is a poem about a mother telling her son about her life, referring it to “no crystal stair.” Instead, the stairs were rugged and torn, symbolising that her life had been hard and that she had gone through tough times. This stanza shows why the mother wants to give her son advice, because she had also experienced hardships in life.

Since she is talking to her son, she wants him to succeed and although he may not have come from wealth and prosperity, that does not mean that he has to fail. In the poem, it seems like the speaker is wise and knows that even if someone has disadvantages and struggles, it does not mean that they can’t have a future. The tone changes when the mother tells her son how she has not had a good life or “ no crystal stair” to that even though she doesn’t have good stairs, doesn’t mean she can’t move forward and climb.

Langston Hughes, the poet of “Mother to Son”, incorporates the theme, even though life will be filled with hardships and complications, it is best to keep going and remain positive for the future. He presents his audience with the comparison of a mother’s life and a staircase in order to inform readers that life is not pristine. The mother first commences the line, “Well, son, I’ll tell you: / Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” (1-2). All of the things that happened to her caused her life to consist of numerous difficulties. With the use of the line, “But all the time / I’se been a climbin on” (7-8), the mother indicates that she keeps moving on, and is able to conquer the difficulties that come toward her. She has yet to accomplish any

" Dimitri ! Release me ! " . she yelled once more . It had been two days already and there where barely any signs of improvement in her condition . I was getting worried but I believed in her . She was so strong , I knew she would snap out of it . I remained silent and simply moved closer to take (1)her (2)hand . Or at least try to take (3)her (4)hand she wouldn't let me touch her since she had gone into this state . Every time I would come close or try to touch her she would try her best to move away , showing disgust through her eyes . It was painful for me to see but I knew this wasn't her . This was the darkness . However I couldn't help but think that the darkness was revealing what she never dared to tell me . Which is that she never saw me the same

Tupac Shakur, an American rapper, once said, “I am the rose that grew from concrete” (Shakur, 7). When Tupac became successful, most people criticized him mainly because of his upbringing, but not his perseverance in making it out. Can you grow a plant in the concrete? If it looked a certain way, would it be criticized or accepted in a society that thrives on social forms of normality? In most cases, anything that seems abnormal is ostracized from society because they do not fit within the cultural or racial norms. This is the reality for most communities. People of color (POC) and groups from low-income communities are often labeled in a certain way because they have more than one social identity than the societal cultural norms. It is through challenging social norms and systematic oppressions that we can create justice and social change; education for young people is a perfect way to start. In order to understand social behaviors, it’s important to examine historical contexts in relations to personal experience to grasp the root cause of any social problems.

On one cold winter night by the oven-warm fire sat five children who had become friends and experienced a christmas miracle. Before that let’s take it back to a couple months before all that happened .One day in the autumn an old gentleman had gone away, and had rented his house to a family of little American children. Their mother was awfully sick so they moved from the U.S. to Italy. Then the next day they went to their backyard garden and they danced and sang. One day they’re kitten ran away and they chased after it to a big wall and saw big black eyes looking through the hole in the stones they were frightened and did not speak to the girl .The next day she was there again, and Rose, the oldest girl, went up to the wall and talked to her a little while. The girl told Rose that she had no kind father, no big brother or sister, and no sweet baby to play with and love. Her and her mother lived all alone in an old stone house that looked on a dark. They were very poor, and the mother was away from home almost every day, washing clothes and scrubbing floors, and working hard to earn money for her little girl . When the children found that she had no one to play with and was very lonely, they talked to her every day, and often brought her fruits and candies, and passed them through the hole in the wall they even pushed the kitten through but the hole was hardly large enough for her, and she mewed and scratched and was very much frightened. So then the father broke away an

It may symbolize mother’s dream or the crystal stair may also represent the mother’s motto which is don’t give up. This poem is using “Extended metaphor” because the author is telling that both my life was crystal stair case but it was not. The mother in the poem compares her life to all of the glorious things that is nonexistent. Also in general, crystal is seen as beautiful, pure, clear and valuable. But mother explains that her life is not any of these things. She also showcases her life as being bare, filled with splinters and torn up boards. But Langston Hughes also shows this mother's refusal to give up and stop, and makes the case for fighting through even the unknown as seen below. The entire poem of Langston Hughes uses words, phrases or line repetition. He used ~in’ like climbin’ and landin’ also “I’se has been” used over and over in order to bring rhythm in poem. It also shows Hughes’ hardness of life for example, “I’se been a-climbin’ on” , “reachin’ landin’s”, “turnin’ corners” suggests movement and therefore signifies an ascent that is inspiring. “And sometimes goin’ in the dark / Where there ain’t been no light” makes this poem a story of dark times. So in conclusion, This poem “Mother to son” represents the hardship of his life being persecuted for only being black people. But he gives reader hope and confidence that everything will be better so we have to wait for that time. In my opinion, this

I was working on the way the sunlight illuminated the delicate veins in a rose petal, trying not to think of how I’d once seen it do the same to Illyrian wings, when the doors opened.

I present this next rose to the Moxies. Thank you for being my second family. From family vacations to hanging at each other's houses, I enjoy every moment together. Will you please come up the accept this rose?