In everyone's everyday life,everyone should have a mother or someone who is like a mother to them. Langston Hughes has three major literary devices: Imagery,Metaphor,and Personification.Their is tons of imagery in the poem and it has meaning to it. There is metaphor in the poem that doesn't make sense but over time it makes sense. Just like imagery it has a meaning to it. Lastly, personification is in the poem. Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas. Its is expressed greatly throughout the poem.
First Hughes uses imagery to present a picture of the metaphorical staircase. The poem uses imagery to convey the message that every mom should tell their child/children about life; that is hard. For example, the mother tells the son,”Life for me ain't no crystal stair”.(Mother to Son,Line 2). She compares life to a crystal stair. Life is hard and complicated, and a crystal is clear and pure in the inside and on the outside. Also “the poem “Mother to Son” tells a similar story to “The Negro Mother” …show more content…
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas.Hughes poem is not fully about personification but their are some lines in the poem that express personification clearly.“It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,” expresses personification that relates to life.
There should be a mother in everybody's lives. Imagery,metaphor,and personification are the three major literary devices that Langston Hughes uses. Imagery expresses a lot in the poem and has meaning and understanding about it. There are metaphors that make sense and their are metaphors that don't make sense. Every poem or almost every poem has personification. This is because there is always something to compare something to. These three literary devices are the main three in the poem that makes the poem stand
First Hughes uses imagery to present a picture of the metaphorical staircase. The poem uses imagery to convey the message that every mom should tell their child/children about life; that is hard. For example, the mother tells the son,”Life for me ain't no crystal stair”.(Mother to Son,Line 2). She compares life to a crystal stair. Life is hard and complicated, and a crystal is clear and pure in the inside and on the outside. Also “the poem “Mother to Son” tells a similar story to “The Negro Mother” …show more content…
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas.Hughes poem is not fully about personification but their are some lines in the poem that express personification clearly.“It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up,” expresses personification that relates to life.
There should be a mother in everybody's lives. Imagery,metaphor,and personification are the three major literary devices that Langston Hughes uses. Imagery expresses a lot in the poem and has meaning and understanding about it. There are metaphors that make sense and their are metaphors that don't make sense. Every poem or almost every poem has personification. This is because there is always something to compare something to. These three literary devices are the main three in the poem that makes the poem stand