The Description On the Mother To Son

In Langston Hughes poem “Mother to Son” you see many things, some more obvious than the other like figurative language, the mood, and the tone. The figurative language in this poem is a metaphor and it states that “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.” That is referring that life has its ups and downs but you have to pull through it. Then “and places with no carpet on the floor” is another metaphor because In life it may seem like there isn’t any carpet of the floor as in it bare it may be a bad time,  it may be a time where a loved might have been lost. Then the mood of the poem a calm time where the mother wants to tell the son how life is. Then the tone of the story is the same but also it is stern. The mother wants to get her point out to the boy so she has to use a stern voice to back up the calmness.