Comparing Mother To Son 'And If This World Was Mine'

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A poem by Langston Hughes “Mother to Son” can be related to WAK’s “If This World Was Mine” in several different ways. One Way I can compare “Mother to Son” and WAK’s “If This World Was Mine” because first of all, when you hear the Title “Mother to Son” you think of a mother passing something on to a son. And in WAK’s “If This World Was Mine” you obviously notice that a lady who could be the mom give a big piece of yarn shaped like a sphere (which could be planet earth). Secondly, in a part of the lyrics of “Mother to Son” describes something that is filled with splinters, cracks, shacks, and that there is no carpet. While in the picture of WAK’s “If This World Was Mine” you can clearly tell that the floor the two characters are sitting on is

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