In the poem “Mother to son”, it shows how his mom is trying to teach him about life. The mother is also telling her son that the road isn’t always smooth and straight. One quote from the poem is, “Life ain’t been no crystal stair, it had in it tacks, splinters, boards torn up, and places with no carpet in the floor bare.” The mother is giving a life lesson to her son. She tells her son about her experience through life and now it is his turn to meet the world. In “If this world was mine”, the mom is handing a ball of yarn to her son. The ball if yarn represents the world. Since the ball of yarn has nots, it represents that going through life is not easy. It is also not perfect and that there will be bumps in the road through life. They are
