Mother to Son Response

Author's Note: This is a response that I wrote to the poem "Mother to Son".

In the poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, there is a "touching" meaning to it you could say. She uses Metaphors such as, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" to describe and try to have the reader picture what's going on in their head about her life, and what she went through. Now the whole piece was about just the metaphor, there were hyperbole's such as "there are tacks in it, and boards torn up." She wasn't trying to signal a messed up floor, but her messed up life. She wants us as readers to picture the pain and suffering she has gone through to get to where she is.