Langston Hughes Mother To Her Son

The Harlem Renaissance was also called The New Negro Movement because during the Harlem Renaissance era its arts— “in poetry, fiction, drama, music, painting, and sculpture”—proved the new ear of achievements for African Americans that were “hardly more than a half-century removed from slavery and enmeshed in the chains of a dehumanizing segregation.” Hence, the Harlem Renaissance was also called The New Negro Movement as this marked the birth of African American artists— “the foundations for the representation of their people in the modern world, with a complexity and a self-knowledge that have proven durable even as the African American condition changed considerable with the unfolding of the twentieth century.” From the Harlem Renaissance, collaborated as a special relationship, Langston Hughes— “define the spirit of the age, from a literary point of view, through his brilliant poetry and other writings…,” and “…the finest first-person account of the renaissance, a treasure-trove of impressions and memories on which virtually all scholars …show more content…
Mother to her Son the stories of her life—the ups and downs of life—and she’s still holding on strong for her Son should too hold on to life like she did because she made it and he too can make it out alive like she did. I choose this particular poem out of the other poems by Hughes because it portrayed something that I can relate to between parents and children’s. The lectures that parents give to their children’s about life and the wonders of their stories about their life to their children’s. “So boy, don’t you turn back. / Don’t you fall now— / For I’se still goin’, honey,” were key lines from the poem that hit home for me because it is sadly the truth that we as children’s miss the meaning to hold on like our parents had hold on. We forgot to live life like we want to and push through those boundaries that has held us back because sometimes we