Author's note: This is a short response for Language Arts class written about the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. Also it is to improve my score in text analysis.
The poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is undoubtedly written from the point of a motivational mother talking he son out of giving up. Hughes is a poet, so he used some figurative language such as allusions, personification, tone, and mood.
The first kind of figurative language that this man used, is called allusion. Allusion is comparing one object to another of greater value. His example of the was when he said "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" because he is comparing his not-so-perfect-life to an, expensive, high quality, crystal staircase. Now the next part of speech is personification. Personification is when you say something like it actually happened. Langston said that his life was a bare, non carpeted floor with tacks, splinters and torn up boards. Next, there is tone. Tone is how the author views the text or what feelings or emotions he/she is trying to express. I think that he used tone by stating the same quote as before about the crystal stair.
Langston Hughes is a historical poet and what poet hasn't used figurative language at one time or another in their career? I think he did a great job using this kind of writing and he used it in all thee right places in the text. Figurative language can be used to define things better, describe things better, and insert tone/mood into stories or poems.
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