Blog post 10
Dear Langston Hughes I’ve never been a poetry person. In fact, I have always despised poetry (I still do). The only time I have read poetry was when I was forced to for an English class. I have never really liked a poem until I read and annotated Mother to Son for my Sonnet annotation. Most of the poems we’ve looked at have been either abstract or concrete, but the abstract ones had themes so obscure and niche that they felt like riddles with no answers, while the concrete ones didnt really have any impact on me. Thus, any poem I read was instantly burned from the neural networks of my brain. But your poem managed to stay. Especially these lines: “Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.” This was a theme that actually applied to my life. Life isn’t easy. It’s full of hardships, setbacks, moments that feel impossible to push through. But we can never back down because pushing through, enduring, and overcoming is what makes life worth living. Another line that really stuck with me was “For...