Langston Hughes: Poems

In the passage what is the literal and figurative meaning of the word "bare"

Langston Hughes "mother to son"

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Literally it means uncovered or uncushioned...... nothing to make her journey more comfortable. Figuratively, bare reveals her nakedness, or rather the "truth" of the story.

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Mother to Son