Comparison of Langston Hughes s Mother to Son and Gwendolyn Brooks s The Mother and The
In Langston Hughes’s “Mother to Son,” and Gwendolyn Brooks’s “The Mother,” and “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till,” these three poems deal with motherhood. In “Mother to Son,” the mother in this poem is giving her child words of encouragement, she explains to her child that life isn’t easy and it not going to get any easier, so you have to keep climbing and never give up. In the poem “The Mother,” here we have a mother who is dealing with the repercussions of her decision to have an abortion and a loss of a child, she will never forget about the final choice she made. In “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till,” here we have a mother’s physical description, while she is grieving for a loss of a child. ... In “The Mother” and “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till,” the mothers in the poems are both dealing with a loss of a child. ... The loss that the mother in “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till,” is experiencing is because of race and segregation.