There is a lot of figurative language in the poem "Mother to Son". One example of figurative language is when she says her life is not a crystal stair case. So was just trying to say that her life wasn't easy. Another metaphor is that she said her stair case is bare, and what she meant by that was loneliness and poverty. The splinters is another metaphor, it shows that her life has many pains. The mood of the poem was sad, it was because she was talking about that her life wasn't good. Also the tone is soft because she is telling her son to preserver. Since Langston Hughes (Author) is African American, he is trying to tell everyone why make African Americans miserable?
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