The Hardships In The Poem Mother To Son English Literature Essay

Everyone life is full of hardships but one must overcome from these hardships to achieve success in life. In the poem, “Mother to Son”, mother is encouraging her son for hard work by telling example of her own life and it can be seen as Litotes and Metaphor in the poem. Every mother wants her child to see as a successful person in her life. Therefore, she tells her child about the pitfalls of life so that her child not does the same mistake. She expects from her child to learn about life from her experience of life. And, this love and care of a mother for her child has demonstrated by Langston Hughes in the poem, “Mother to Son”. Through this poem Hughes wants to convey a message that everyone has to work hard in their life. No matter how difficult is your task but never give up in life. Hughes also wants to convey a message that there is a need of determination and courage in order to win the battle in life.

“Mother to Son” poem is a dramatic monologue. It means there is only one speaker and that is a mother. Mother gives advice to her child that life is full of hardships but you have to never stop in your life. Mother tells to her child that never sits down or turns back in life just because of hardships. Always keep climbing on the ladder of success. Hughes has used lot of metaphors in this poem to compare life obstacles with other things, for example, “Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” Here Hughes has compared life with the stairs because climbing stairs is a exhaustive task and on the other hand climbing on the ladder of success is also a difficult task. Mother tells to her child that the path of the life is no as simple as it looks. It is consist of full of tacks, splinters and stumbling blocks but it doesn’t mean that we should stopped moving ahead. According to some lines of “Mother to Son”, it appears that mother is not well educated and she is still fighting against the hardships of life, for example, “And sometimes goin’ in the dark”. But, she has a better experience of life because she has learned a lot from obstacles in her life. The language in the poem is also not grammatically correct which has good point that it gives a real feeling of mother to son conversation to a reader. Another important factor of this poem is metaphors which has been used to smoothly compare life problems with real life examples, for example, “reachin’ landin’s “, “climbin’on” and “turnin’ corners”. It means that mother is telling to her son that she has faced a lot of problems in her life. Problems were tough like climbing on a mountain but she never give up in her life.

Furthermore, mother advices her son that there is a need of determination and courage in life because she knows that her son is also going to face rough times in his life. Therefore, she is preparing him to fight against all hard times and to never ever give up in life, for example, “Cause you finds it’s kinder hard”. The last four lines of poem is a advice to son from his mother that don’t sit or turn back because of your problems, just

Keep on marching ahead and never give up.

“Mother to Son” poem by Langston Hughes teaches a lesson to those people who get scared of hardships in life. And, loose hopes to overcome from their hardships. This poem demonstrates that if we have strong determination and courage then we can win any race in this world no matter how rough is our way.

We are Seven

“We are Seven” is a short and nice poem. William Wordsworth opens this poem by asking a question that how much a child knows about death. Wordsworth meets a eight year old girl. Girl has curly hair and beautiful eyes. Wordsworth asks to her that how many sibling you have? She replies seven. Then writer again asks her “where are they?” she says two of them are in Conway, two of them are gone to sea and two of them are in churchyard grave. Then writer says that it means you are five brothers and sisters. She says no we are seven. Then writer gets confused, he asks her again that your two brothers has died then how you have six siblings. Girl says that she spend time with those siblings who are dead. She sits and sings near her sibling’s grave. Then writer thinks that may be child knows about death better than adult people.