The poems " Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, and "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes are very similar in many ways, and yet very different in others. "Mother to Son" is written from a mother telling her son that life isn't easy and not to give up. "Mending Wall" is about a man fixing a wall that has holes in it. Both of these poems are about the hard work it takes to get something done. …showed first 75 words of 420 total…

…showed last 75 words of 420 total…great poems worth reading. "Mother to Son" is more upbeat, and "Mending Wall" is almost like a short story. I believe both of these poems are alike in the way that both of them are about problems, but different because the problems they face are different. The mother in "Mother to Son" knows all the answers and is passing them to her son, and in "Mending Wall" the man wants to find out the answers.