With everything that we have read for class so far I have to say I like Langston Hughes poems the best. I feel that they are an easy read, easy to interpet and just a lot better than our other readings. The poem that I really liked and I feel many people can relate to is "Mother to Son."
This poem is about a mother talking to her son about perserverance and never giving up. She talks about her life and how is was not easy for her. She had encountered many obstacles, sometimes she would be walking in the dark which I took as she was trying to find a path to follow that is different than the one she is on. This new path is dark because it's unknown she is taking a risk with her life going places she is unsure of but will not allow herself to look back. The life she had at some parts contained splinters, the boards we all torn up meaning that she experienced pain. With the boards torn up the path her life was on became difficult where she had to keep going on and find a new way to obtain her goals in life.
She is telling this to her son so that he will not give up and to let him know that life is not all about apple pie in the sky. There will be heartach, there will be trials. At some parts you will have to find your own way when the path you are on has roadblocks or is all torn up. That even though the path you choose is not clear right now keeping marching through the darkness and you will find the light. Though you don't know where you life is leading you now everything always seems to work itself out in the end so don't ever look back and keep going because it will make you a stronger person.
I think that this poem relates to all of us. No one knows where our lives will take us. Right now we may see a path and we can see the end and it all looks great but something happens that throws us on a different, unexpected and unfamiliar path. We could choose to turn around to what is comfortable and familiar or keep moving forward and see where this new path in life takes us.
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I definitely agree that this is an amazing poem. The message is such a simple one, but it is something we can all apply to our lives. I think we realized this in our class discussion today. So many people chose this peom because it meant something to them and it applied to their lives in some way. I think writing is even more powerful when you can take it and actually know what the author is trying to say - when you can actually apply it to your own life.
“Mother to Son” is the poem that touches every reader’s heart. That’s why I wasn’t surprised by how many people picked this poem to talk about in today’s class. It teaches one of life’s most important lessons, never to give up. I think that’s something every parent wants to teach their children, which is exactly what this mother is doing in the poem.
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