Lessons In Life When comparing "Mother To Son" with "Mending Wall" the message given is that with hard work, either manual or emotional life gives rewards. In "Mother To Son" the mother wants to pass her knowledge of life to him, that nothing is free and with hard work you will receive the feeling of accomplishments. The mother speaks of her hardships in life, but even with those she has always had hope. Even during …showed first 75 words of 452 total…

…showed last 75 words of 452 total…he would as soon play tennis without a net as write free verse--he was a pioneer in the interplay of rhythm and meter and in the poetic use of the vocabulary and inflections of everyday speech. His poetry is thus both traditional and experimental, regional and universal. (http://www.robertfrost.org/indexgood.html) Works Cited Baym, Nina. "The Norton Anthology of American Literature." 2003 http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes.html http://www.robertfrost.org/indexgood.html