Mother to Son

Authors Note: Figurative language makes normal stories more interesting and more descriptive this is piece is a paragraph I wrote analyzing the poem Mother to Son. 

In the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes the author uses figurative language to get his point across and create a more detailed description. When he compares life, to a crystal staircase, you really understand that life isn’t a fragile little thing, and it’s not always going to be beautiful, or easy to “climb”. So instead of the person who is narrating the poem (a mom to her son) she describes an old wooden staircase instead of a delicate crystal one. Then, when the author starts talking about splinters and boards being torn up, that’s personification because, life won’t give you splinters, and it doesn’t have tacks in it. While reading this, it seems like this means a lot to the author, and you realize that the mom narrating this poem is really sympathetic and caring, and all she wants is for her son to take whatever life, or “staircase” he gets and to never give up.