Author's Note: I read a poem called Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. I noticed a lot of figurative language as I read.
In the poem, Mother to Son, by Langston Hughes, there is a lot of figurative language. There are a lot of metaphors that play into a bigger one. The big metaphor is the stairs. The mom isn't really talking about stairs, she's talking about life and that we shouldn't give up. When she talks about it having tacks and splinters, it means painful times. Torn up boards and places without carpet mean lonely times or poor times. Reaching landings and turning corners are like resting or easy times. She tells her son these things like she is scolding him. The mom tells him not to give up. I think that we should never give up.
When you increase your knowledge, you see how little you know. You see how much you still have to learn. When you know a lot, you can say: "I know that I know nothing."
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