THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
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“Let me tell you son, ____ “
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“LIfe has been a staircase with tacks and splinters.”
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For I’se still goin’, honey, I’se still climbin’,
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“So boy, don’t you turn back"
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Detailed explanation-1: -The use of an African-American dialect in this poem highlights the idea that the son should expect certain difficulties, because to some extent society treated all blacks the same. But the fact that it is his mother speaking tells him, and us, that the struggle ahead of him is not just a theory but is his fate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Racism and Perseverance “Mother to Son” is a dramatic monologue about surviving in the face of American racism. The speaker gives her son advice about how to improve his lot in a racist society through an extended metaphor about climbing a set of stairs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer and Explanation: “Mother to Son” does not make significant use of rhyme or alliteration. Two of Hughes’s influences can help understand why his poetry is often like this.
Detailed explanation-4: -The poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is a metaphor. A metaphor is a figurative language technique in which two things are directly compared.