Mother To Son By Daniel Beaty

Growing up is hard. But you can keep fighting through it. Growing up means that life can be difficult, so you need to push through, some people won’t be in your life, so you must learn for yourself, and you become further from you parents so it will be hard.

To begin with, growing up can mean life can be difficult, but you must push through. The metaphorical poem “Mother to Son”, by Langston Hughes (1902-1967), demonstrates this. In the poem (lines 3-9), it says, “It’s had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor — Bare. But all the time, I’se been a climbin’ on.” This means that life has been hard for her, but she has pushed through and kept going. In addition, in lines 14-17, it states, “So boy, don’t you turn back. Don’t you set down on the steps ‘Cause you finds it’s kinder hard. Don’t you fall now —” This means that the mother is giving advice to her son to not give up on life and no matter what happens, he needs to push through. …show more content…
Knock Knock, a poem by Daniel Beaty (1975- ), also shows how growing up is difficult. In lines 32-37, it says, “Papa, come home, cause there’s things I don’t know and I thought maybe you could teach me: how to shave; how to dribble a ball; how to talk to a lady; how to walk like a man.” This show that he’s waiting for his father to come back.” Also, in lines 47-50, it states, “For every lesson I failed to teach, hear these words: Shave in one direction in strong deliberate strokes to avoid irritation. Dribble the page with the brilliance of your ballpoint pen. Walk like a god and your goddess will come to you.” This shows that the son wants him to reply, so he makes up his own letter that his dad mailed to