No Crystal Stair

Cocar Poems just seem to be stanzas with a bunch of words but in reality, it is beyond just a bunch of words, more like an intense significance. Many authors tend to send out an impacting message throughout poems. Usually authors write poems about occurrences that they’ve experienced to express how they’ve dealt with certain situations or people. Making it easy for the readers to also catch on to their vibe and main idea of the whole poem. In Langston Hughes’

Hughes portrays a mother speaking to her son and the readers to bestow her knowledge, encouragement and wisdom from the life that she lived. At the beginning of the poem, Langston imitates his mother by saying that life for her has not been “no crystal stair case”. As you can see Langston started off using a metaphor to depict the message of the hard life that his mother had. Throughout the poem, many different forms of imagery were used such as tactile imagery, kinesthetic imagery, and visual imagery

view of the mother speaking to her son about life. This poem is very symbolic. The author uses an object, image, character, or action that stands for an idea beyond its literal meaning. For example “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” does not represent a crystal stair, but a far deeper meaning that must be thought over and over again. The quote is also a metaphor because the quote is comparing two things without using “like” or “as”. The poem explains the truth of life. We are all born with

In the poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, the most meaningful phrase is "life for me ain't been no crystal stair" because it explains the narrator's identity and conflicts. In the poem “Mother to Son,” it describes her hardships in life. She begins by discussing what she had to endure. Lastly, she explains how she pushed through her hardships. Throughout the poem, the mother explains to her son the conflicts she has endured. The mother uses a metaphor to explain. She starts off by stating

Imagine if your life was getting harder everyday, What would you do? Would you give up? Or would you keep going and facing the obstacles in life? “Life ain't been no crystal stair” said the mother telling her son to never give up and keeping when life get hard just keep going and be the person you imagine to be. The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” is about a rose that overcomes everything that happens in life and is able to grow and be a beautiful rose. And the poem “Mother to Son” is about

My Explication on Mother to Son The poem “Mother to Son”, by Langston Hughes is both liberating and very moving. The poem not only empowers the woman’s son, but sends a powerful message that should empower other generations of youth as well. Hughes’ well-versed poem skillfully and methodically uses literary devices such as repetition, diction, imagery, extended metaphor, anaphora, symbolism, and enjambment to enhance the true message of the poem. “Mother to Son” shows the love a mother has for her

Langston Hughes. In, "Mother to Son", the mother guides her son to understand that life will not be an easy experience. The mother describes life not to be a crystal staircase, but instead be a worn out and painful staircase. "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up..." (Hughes). Although, the stairs were rough and tough to walk on the mother persevered to get where she is now.

splinters on stairs, the person has to go over them if the person wants to go up the stairs, this relates to life because when troubles come in life, in order to get past them a person has to be tough, if the person is not tough enough to make it through the troubles, they stay dealing with the trouble and lose control of themselves, or even sanity. A different device used in this poem is metaphor used to compare life and the troubles it will give. The speaker says, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair”

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

Most parents help their children get through hard times by teaching them perseverance. Parents tech their children to keep their head up through hard times. While both poems, "If" by Rudyard Kipling and "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes have many similarities the both have some differences. Both poems "If" and "Mother to Son" have the same themes but that's not the only thing that is the similar. In "If" and in "Mother to Son" have the same tone of sternness but loving. The parents care about their