Mother to Son

Langston Hughess poem entitled pay back to Son is a poem of nurturing, love, and discussion of thoughts. The mother as the storyteller of the poem shares her thoughts just about life. She said that life is not an easy journey. She relates her life to a stair, which was not a crystal or a beautiful and genuine gem. As what she is trying to tell her son, life is a never-ending journey with unspoilt of mysteries, fear, struggle, pain, success, and meaning. The mother saw her child giving up on something so she told him not to think about the negativities for it was the challenge of living.From the beginning of the poem, the narrator already took place as the authority and judge. As she verbalize her case, she already conclude many things around her journey and life. However, every insight that was imposed as personal justifications by using the words for me. It means that the conclusion is an imperious discussion. Everything is logical but deep. The narrator reaches her hand towar ds her son as she treasured him to shape a better person like the way she tempered her life during her childhood until she became an adult. Her transition from being a soft-spoken mother to an imposer and going back to a nurturing and loving mother is a alike a significant idea in billet the poem as she utilize the word son in the beginning, boy in the middle and lamb in the latter part of the poem.The word son showed her literal consanguinity with her child. As she used the word boy it shows that the narrator became an imposer, but as she went used the word honey she imposed a more sketch birth with her child her love, nurturance and acceptance of her sons weakness. Through this, the relationship of mother and child became an educator and student relationship but oblivious goes to a more intimate relationship that moulds the mother and the son to be intact.In terms of the symbolisms, elements, and images within the poem, the author used the images that can be seen within the house such as carpet, stair, and floor. It shows the true essence of gestation because literally or logically speaking, mothers are made to nurture the dwelling house and the family. By looking or analyzing the images alone, it can be seen that narrator is a woman or a mother to be specific because it embossed the responsibilities of a woman within the house.There are also ironies within the poem such as dark and light, climbin and landin, and fall and climb. The author showed a balance justification of strength and weakness towards the mothers reputation showing that she was not a perfect person, but trying to become a better one for her child. The author succeeds his attempt to incorporate two negative and positive aspects of life, which is a sensitive issue especially if a child is part of the situation. His attack was simple but complete. He stated everything a mother and child should know within a short poem that distinguishes him to become an effective moralist poet.T he passage Life for me aint been no crystal stair was the main thesis of the poem. At the end of the narrators discussion, she showed in what she is trying to say about life by restating the main argument of the poem. This attack shows her responsibility to give her child a goof faith or belief how life is going to be as he went to his own journey. She pushed her son to climb the stair without idea of the negative aspects of life but always on the positive side of everything because negativities are part of life but it was not the only drive for living.Work CitedHughes, Langston. Mother to Son. (n.d.) 5 December 2007. <http//www.tnellen.com/cybereng/matoson.html