Setting

Fresh, cool air blew in the snow boarders face, as she snow boarded down the soft, fluffy slope. She opened her mouth for a split second, her mouth filled with snow. 

"What a wonderful day!" She thought 

Tone & Mood

Tone is voice, the way somethings is said.

Mood is setting, the way it's described.

These Peanuts are making me thirsty

It was a stormy day. I was in my way too comfortable bed, that I would never want to get out of, eating peanuts, then suddenly I realized: 

"These peanuts are making me thirsty!" 

 

What is Mother to son about

Mother to son

The poem is about a mother giving advice to her son using stairs. It uses symbols and other imagery. The stairs symbolize life, the tacks and splinters reprisent problems and the bare floor, with no carpet, reprisents sadness. She says that her life was hard and that she encounter a lot of problems, hardships, sadness and at times she was lost and confused, but she told her son to not give up just because life gets really hard him. The sons mother reasures him that everything is going to be alright, because she is still climbing the stairs of life. In conclusion, the poem mother to son is about a mother giving advice to her son about life.