USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In “Mother to Son” Hughes uses a metaphor to describe the life of the mother. In this case, it is an extended metaphor that compares the mother’s life to a staircase. Each step symbolizes a part of her life that she had to endure.

Detailed explanation-2: -#1 In Langston Hughes poem Mother to Son, Hughes uses the metaphor crystal stair to symbolize a struggle free life.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first metaphor is: “Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Here Hughes compares a frustrating life without dreams to a “broken-winged bird.” When Hughes makes this comparison, I picture a bird’s broken wing who can’t fly but tries his or her hardest.