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The Arizona Desert
In the Arizona desert
You can taste the heat for miles and miles
Everyone’s so friendly, I look around and all I can see is smiles
The desert at times is almost as hot as a forest fire
Arizona is a vacation place most people desire
All these people in the desert seem to love the melting heat
All Arizona sports teams are ending their season with defeat
You can smell the cactus’s moving so swiftly through the breeze
My allergies in the desert sometimes get so bad, that I have to stop and sneeze
Mini Composition
Langston Hughes is an African-American poet who lived from 1902 to 1967 and in his poem Mother to Son. The mother is giving her kid an insight on life as an African-American living in “at the time” a more racist time in America. The mother explains how hard she has worked her whole life and the problems she overcame also how “Life ain’t been no crystal stair” because of her race.
This open poem is about the mother speaking to her son about her life being an African-American and how she has lived through all the rough times, the mother compares her life to a beat up stair case.
In the poem, the mother doesn’t pronounce any “g’s,” but the words she drops the”g’s” all end in “ing.” This could be from her southern accent and also most likely she wasn’t educated because she is black. In this poem there is a few double negatives in her sentences like “where there ain’t been no light.”
When the mother says to her son “so don’t you set down on the steps” she’s using a metaphor because she’s comparing Life with stairs. The mothers main point she’s trying to point out is that she’s saying not to give up even though the stairs are rough, keep on going no matter how hard life can be at times.
The mother also says “for I still goin’ honey, I still climin’, and life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” by this she is trying to explain that she had to work hard her whole life and still is working hard, but no matter how hard she works her life can’t be as perfect as that “crystal stair.”
-Ryan O’Charchin