Kristel Encarnacion
To My son
This poem I feel centers around one metaphor in particular which is the comparison between life and a staircase. The poem mainly consists of a mother telling her son that life is hard and nothing is easy, she uses words like "tack","torn up boards" and "splinters" when describing how hard it can be climbing up battered stairs. The poem I guess shows the love a mom has for her son and the way she sort of passes on her wisdom and street knowledge on her son out of concern for him. She uses Ebonics common of African American people, she might not be book smart but she is knowledgeable on the struggles in life. She tells her son that it is hard but even she is still climbing showing the importance of continuing to climb the stairs to reach your goals.
Be sure to place quotation marks around words which are not yours, which you are citing from the poem. Please read the posts on this poem by Travis and Charlotte, as well as the comments.
ReplyDeleteGood observation about the language. In which other reading have we encountered this in our course? Connections between this poem and those by Blake and Kees?
OK Miss B ,placed the quotation marks on words I took from the poem. I feel like we have encountered this type of Ebonics in many of the poems we have read,like "sweat. one connection that I can sort of tie with the 3 poems are that all of them might be trying to expose social causes, whether its gender discrimination ,social stratus,or child neglect.
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