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The mother who is delivering the poem to her young son has been described as an "allegorical persona", [7] who could represent numerous African-American mothers urging their children forward. [8]: 106 The professor R. Baxter Miller considers "Mother to Son" to illustrate "how dialect can be used with dignity."
The poem echoes Yeats' fascination with the Irish peasantry. Written in first person, the poem explains the difficult chores and struggles of an aged, unfortunate woman and her bitter resentment to the young children, whose worries of fondness and personal appearance pale to insignificance when compared to the toils of the old woman.
The widow married the son, and the daughter the old man; the widow was, therefore, mother to her husband's father, consequently grandmother to her own husband. They had a son, to whom she was great-grandmother; now, as the son of a great-grandmother must be either a grandfather or great-uncle, this boy was therefore his own grandfather. N. B.
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 years old and was crossing the Mississippi River on the way to visit his father in Mexico. The poem was first published the following year in The Crisis magazine, in June 1921, starting Hughes's literary career. "The Negro Speaks of ...
1953: Arts Council of Great Britain Prize for the best first book of poems for Poems; 1955: Somerset Maugham Award for A Way of Looking. [4] 1966: Richard Hillary Memorial Prize for The Mind has Mountains [8] 1987: W.H. Smith Literary Award for Collected Poems 1953–1985; 1992: Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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"Monday's Child" is one of many fortune-telling songs, popular as nursery rhymes for children. It is supposed to tell a child's character or future from their day of birth and to help young children remember the seven days of the week. As with many such rhymes, there are several variants. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19526.
The poem is about the father/son relationship – recalling the poet's memories of his father, realizing that despite the distance between them there was a kind of love, real and intangible, shown by the father's efforts to improve his son's life, rather than by gifts or demonstrative affection.