Langston Hughes 'Poem Mother To Son'

under the pain or persevere under the decades of mistreatment as written in his resilient toned poem, Mother to Son. The effectiveness of the poem is emphasized on the unresolved conflict of the long-postponed and frustrated dream of African Americans. This can be seen as, “five of the six answers to the opening questions are interrogative rather than declarative sentences.” As the whole poem is rhetorically structured, it questions the “white race” for their treatment of the African American but also tells a story of the ‘black’ lives. The poetic devices of rhetorical questioning to the white race (or does it explode?), metaphors and similes referring to his people and underlining the obvious yet subtle comparison of the perspective of his race (does it stink like rotten meat?) show anger striking out. All these techniques
The extended theme of perseverance and hope is accentuated through the devices of imagery for a black American that is deferred in the American dream and the extended metaphor of life being lived liked a staircase. A crystal stair, a perception of a perfect easy life is a distant dream that was far from reality for the mother of Langston. The inequality and
The poems analysed above talk about racial discrimination, inequality and perseverance through the story of a brave loving mother. Even in an unfair world to the race of Hughes, his legacy remained great due to dream shared among many African Americans. Let America be America again conveys a message of wanting his land to embody liberty and freedom as it once did. He speaks on behalf of all the poor, slaved and starving people of the land who all shared a dream of being equal in America. Langston Hughes represented not only the African American races but all of the mistreated. He gave a message from the ones who struggled forcing