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Comparative essay - Langston Hughes poems "Mother to Son" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".


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Comparative essay - Langston Hughes poems "Mother to Son" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".

... Comparative essay Both of Langston Hughes poems "Mother to Son" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" express his opinions and hopes about racism. "Mother to Son" has a much less "formal" dialect than that of the "Negro Speaks of Rivers". Also, "the Negro Speaks of Rivers" has a slightly irregular beat in comparison to "mother to son", which uses a more regular beat, which is used to the effect of creating a sort of "staircase beat", which is appropriate because the main focus of the poem is about how life is like walking up a staircase. Metaphors and similes used in the two poems vary, the poem "The Negro Speaks of rivers" uses a lot of metaphors and a lot of similes, whereas the poem "Mother to Son" uses a great deal of metaphors and no similes. The poems are very different from one another if you look at how they

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