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    This poem by Langston Hughes depicts a mother giving advice to her son. She tells him that life will be difficult, as represented by the metaphor of a rickety staircase with "tacks" and "splinters" that she has had to climb. However, she encourages him to continue persevering and climbing, and not to give up halfway by sitting on the steps. The mother's advice suggests that the path through life will be challenging, but progress is possible through continued hard work and effort.

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    This poem by Langston Hughes depicts a mother giving advice to her son. She tells him that life will be difficult, as represented by the metaphor of a rickety staircase with "tacks" and "splinters" that she has had to climb. However, she encourages him to continue persevering and climbing, and not to give up halfway by sitting on the steps. The mother's advice suggests that the path through life will be challenging, but progress is possible through continued hard work and effort.

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    Its all about our lives... a way to think back.

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    This poem by Langston Hughes depicts a mother giving advice to her son. She tells him that life will be difficult, as represented by the metaphor of a rickety staircase with "tacks" and "splinters" that she has had to climb. However, she encourages him to continue persevering and climbing, and not to give up halfway by sitting on the steps. The mother's advice suggests that the path through life will be challenging, but progress is possible through continued hard work and effort.

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    Mother To Son

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    REMI ANNA SUNNY
    This poem by Langston Hughes depicts a mother giving advice to her son. She tells him that life will be difficult, as represented by the metaphor of a rickety staircase with "tacks" and "splinters" that she has had to climb. However, she encourages him to continue persevering and climbing, and not to give up halfway by sitting on the steps. The mother's advice suggests that the path through life will be challenging, but progress is possible through continued hard work and effort.

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    Mother to Son

    Langston Hughes
    James Mercer Langston Hughes
    (February 1, 1902 May 22, 1967)

    African American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and


    columnist
    One of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary
    art form called jazz poetry.

    Leader of Harlem Renaissance.

    Montage Of a Dream Deferred, The


    Negro Speaks of Rivers, Let America
    Be America Again etc are some of his
    known works
    Its had tacks in it,

    * Tack (n): a small nail with a sharp point and a flat head
    And splinters,

    ** Splinter(n): a small thin sharp piece of wood, metal, glass,


    that has broken off a large piece
    And boards torn up ,
    And places with no carpet on the
    floor-
    Bare.
    And reachin landins,
    And turnin corners,
    So, boy, dont you turn back.
    Dont you set down on the steps.
    For Ise still goin, honey,
    Ise still climbin
    Guess the referring term?
    crystal stair
    tacks
    splinters
    boards
    no carpet
    bare
    Lets revisit
    Describe
    the type of life the speaker lived.
    How do you know this?

    What advice is the mother giving to the son?

    What is life compared to?

    Ise been a-climbin on, what is the


    mother referring to?

    The significance of the line Dont you


    set down on the steps?
    Identify the critic in you

    Clues:
    Title
    What is going on in the poem?
    Terms that contribute to the meaning
    or effect of the poem.
    Relevance of the structure and dialect.

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