Comparing Two Love Poems

The two poems that I chose by Langston Hughes where “Mother to Son” and “I Dream a World”. These two poems really stood out to me because they had a powerful message. The poems actually made me feel something, it moved me in a way no poem or story has ever. Both poems made me realize that you should not give up in life, just keep pushing toward success, and to go down the right path to succeed in life.
The poem “Mother to Son” is a poem where the mother who is also the speaker of the poem is trying to give advice to her son on how to keep hope and encouragement to move forward in life, no matter what obstacles you face or what life throws at you. She explains to her son how life hasn’t been good to her and how successfully she faced the challenges in hopes that her son will be bold when life gets hard and to succeed in life. In the beginning of
How she didn’t give up in life and she is still climbing but she wants him to do the same and keep going on in life.
The poem “I Dream a World” is based on racial and moral boundaries. The speaker speaks in a hopeful tone about his dreams of the world where all men can get along no matter of the skin color. The theme of the poem is that everyone is equally as valuable and every person should be treated with respect. The attitude of the poem speaks with purpose to inform people how the world should be and how people should treat each other. I believed that the speaker lived during a time when a racial discrimination against people was going on.
That’s why he dreams of a world where love will overtake hate and anger, and everyone will be forgiving. Of a world in which greed will not rule the lives of the people in the world and how the race of a person does not matter, and every person on the world is free. Of a world where no one will live with