Mother to Son

Mother to Son

Mother to Son is a great poem by Langston Hughes that has great figurative language in it. Some of the figurative language in this poem is “Life ain’t been no crystal stair” meaning that this person’s life hasn’t been very good and this quote goes deeper. This quote is meaning that the life of this person is nothing worth wile. Their life has been nothing compared to something like a crystal stair and they wish it was better.
“And sometimes goin' in the dark” is another metaphor from this piece meaning that something’s wont last a long time and disappear or go into the dark as is said in this quote. This poems tone is encouragement because she is encouraging her son not go give up and to stick with what you can and even though life gets hard don’t let it defeat you. The mood that this author was trying to set was more of a thinking mood, because this make you really think, what did she do to make it hard or why does she not stop, but the answer to these are in the writing.