Children literature may not always be considered appropriate for children to read it because of the content it may contain. The poems I will be analyzing will be “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes. These poems have nothing to do with each other they both have different meanings. “My Papa’s Waltz” concentrates in the life of this family were the father is drunk most of the time. “Mother to Son” concentrates in the concept dreamed by many called the “American Dream”. I argue that not all children’s literature has violent content in them but also children may read and understand the emotions and fear of some of these speakers. Although children find it most interesting if a story has a “monster” or something