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Comparing Two Poems

The comparison between two poems are best analyzed through the form and meaning of the pieces. "Mother to Son" and "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" both written by the profound poet Langston Hughes, depicts many similarities and differences between the poems. Between these two poems the reader can identify his flow of writing through analyzing the form and meaning of each line.
Form and meaning are what readers need to analyze to understand the poem that they are evaluating. In "Mother to Son", his form of writing that is used frequently, is free verse. There is no set "form", but he gets his point across in a very dramatic way. The poem is told by a mother who is trying to let her son know that in her life, she too has gone through many frustrations just like what her son is going through. The tone of this poem is very dramatic and tense because she illustrates the hardships that she had to go through in order to get where she is today. She explains that......

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