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Song and Poem Pairing
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Mother & Son
Song & Pairing Task
What Are They About
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Dear Mama
Dear Mother - By Tupac
Appreciating, understanding since he realizes his mother's care, loving, sad since he explains terrible struggles, and immensely emotional.
Mother To Son
Mother To Son
The ideal "crystal stair" and the contrasting rickety staircase which the mother says she has actually had to ascend and which her son must also learn to climb.
What is each saying about this topic?
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Answer
Topic
How a mother’s care comes from the heart, and how she went through some of the same things that he will have to go through, Or even more. How to appreciate your mother and to be thankful.
Both have the same opinion. The poem is from the mother and the song is from the son.
What is the mood for both
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Mood
Emotion
Both are being sad, Understanding and the love between mother and son/ the bond between them is a strong connection
Understanding
Mother & Son
Sad
Content
What literary devices do each use?
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literary devices
Literary Devices
The Poem- imagery, figurative language, and sound devices are used to express the speaker's experiences. The crystal stairs are a metaphor compared to the speaker's life. Repetition: There is a repetition of the line “life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” has created a musical quality in the poem
In the song, there was a simile, repetition and a metaphor found. The metaphor says "me and my mama had beef". He means they disagreed a lot and had fights. He doesn’t mean they had beef as in meat. The usage of repetition. He kept repeating dear mama and you are appreciated. The simile said "we were together like Bonnie and Clyde".
Why were they both written? What was the purpose?
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Purpose
Results
The Song - used to put other likewise mothers into the equation by making general statements within the narrative such as “it ain’t easy to raise a man”. That is his way of acknowledging that it is a particular challenge for a single mother to bring up a male child without the support of his father.
The Poem - Mothers who are having a heart-to-heart conversation with their son. His purpose is to show that the strongest people in life persevere through difficulties. In this poem, a mother uses several metaphors to convey the ways she has seen adversity.
What is similar or different about them? (Compare/contrast)
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Compare/ Contrast
The difference is that one is to his mother and the other is from a mother and I think that it connects the to because it gives to a different perspective
One is more about the mother and her troubles and the song more talks about the understanding of how it must be hard to raise him and the “life story” of some families
Compare/Contrast
Do you like one better than the other? Why?
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The Song