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The title is talking about a mother talking to her son.

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The title is talking about a mother talking to her son.

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Hughes uses diction on line 7, which reads "bare." The usage of the word signifies to the reader the lack of opportunity, kindness, and help he got in life.

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The poem is about life and how not everything in life is easy and even if it's hard you have to keep on moving on.

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The Mother is talking how life is not a straight forward as it seems,There are some troubles with in the trail(life).

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The Mother is talking how life is not a straight forward as it seems,There are some troubles with in the trail(life).

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theme, is that even if your path isn't the best and things look hard you can still go through it, and make it out just fine 

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theme, is that even if your path isn't the best and things look hard you can still go through it, and make it out just fine 

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The shift occurs after the mother talks about life not being easy.After the 7th stanza she talks about moving on and not giving up.

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The author uses stairs to represent life and the various hardships when he describes them to have "tacks in it,/ And splinters."

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The point of view is in the first person perspective of a mother. This is important as the author is a man, which influences how the mother talks to her son throughout the poem. It also comes from the point of view of an African American man in the 1930's.