Mother To Son By Langston Hughes

With the helpful guidance of parents, children attempt to navigate a path to success. In his poem, "Mother to Son," Langston Hughes describes the unconditional love between a mother and her child. The poem focuses on a mother who has lead a difficult life and her son, to whom she gives advice. In this poem, a mother tells her son to persevere in the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties. “Mother to Son,” serves as a beacon of hope and encouragement to move forward. Through various poetic devices, Hughes reveals that although life presents difficulties, people should not give up when faced with adversity.
Langston Hughes relies heavily on metaphors, which appear throughout the poem, to convey his theme. Hughes opens this poem by presenting