Dark Stormy days
Tree branches...
hanging down
no light
just the fog of mist
branches- evil souls
disappearance
remembering all the sad moments
Black leaves
torn fences
branches looking down at me
Dark

Mother To Son

Mother to Son

BY LANGSTON HUGHES

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.

The author is using visuable objects to show what his point is. He uses a mother and a son in this poem, and he makes the mother "talk" to her son. Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. Its had tacks in it, And splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor. Those are some really powerful descriptive words. I can see these things in my brain, and they don't seem like good words. This poem is showing that life isn't as easy as some people may think. The mother is telling her son to never give up and that life isn't always going to go the way you want it to.

When I read this poem I really think of life. I think of all the things that I could have done right, but didn't. I also know that life isn't going to go the way I want it to. Langston Hughes is trying to tell the reader that life isn't easy. He uses the mother as someone who didn't have such a good life and she kind of tells the reader about it. She tells the reader that she never gave up and neither should we. The stairs in the poem kind of shows life as a whole. She tells her son to not set on the stairs and to keep going.

Knowing the time period of the authors poem writing it kind of says a lot. When the mother is speaking it isn't "real" English. It seems like she is not educated and that she was a slave in her time. I say this because of the way the poem is written and the point of view the mother is coming from.