Most of the time authors use the poem for telling their problems and tensions. Also the author use the theme and literature to define their poems. The Poems that I chosen for comparing are Miss Rosie by author Lucile Clifton and Mother to Son by author Langston Hughes. ... The Theme of this poems are same in Miss Rosie the theme is the life is hard and if you didn't do it you will not get to station that you won't {16-17}. and in the poem of Mother to son is to never give up and try again and again tell you get their {15-17}. The Genre of these two poems are showing the feeling of au...

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"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... In this poem, the tone is cheerful, but at times there is some discontent. In the beginning of the poem, there is a description of happiness and laughter. ... This structure of the poem also includes the situation, speaker, and setting. ...

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Many people can remember song lyrics rather than trying to remember the lines of a famous poem. ... Hughes" rhymes point to the idea of how associated poems and music are. ... In contrast, Ann Cragg's poem, "Musings on Music", does not make the same case as Hughes. Cragg discusses in her poem the love that people have for music in general. ... Hughes shows his interest for blues in his poem by making it appear like a blues song. ...

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Theme for the Unknown, Red Transportation While the four poems, "Public Transportation," "The Unknown Citizen," "The Red Wheelbarrow," and "Theme for English B" encompass a wide variety of styles, they all address a similar theme. Each poem involves the idea of appearances and, in most cases, th...

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The speaker in the poem documents the experience of listening to a piano player in Harlem play the blues. ... The poem's last line, then, ignores the blues performer's ability to articulate pain and likewise to subsume it. ... Finally, at no point in time does the speaker in the poem insert himself into the lyrics. What this implies is that "The Weary Blues" can also be read as an anti-Jazz Age poem. That is, a case can be made in which we need not equate the speaker in the poem with Hughes at all. ...

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Langston Hughes wrote one poem and it was titled two different titles throughout his life, each title gives the poem a profoundly different reading. Reading this poem with the title "Dream Deferred" makes it universal, anyone can relate to it. ... Reading "Dream Deferred" is a self exploring, thought provoking poem about the past and future for you. ... Through this writing you can see the important of all aspects of a poem. The title alone in this poem sets up your frame of mind for the rest of the poem. ...

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Seamus Heaney's poem, Mid-Term Break, is a great example of how society's expectations can impact identity because the poem is about a young man who is away at school to obtain an education and establish his identity when he is called back home to deal with the death of his younger brother. From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... Another poem that touches on identity and social expect...

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Hughes uses heavy symbolism and imagery in this poem. The dream he discussed in the poem wasn't going anywhere at the time of his writing of the poem. ... sets up the plot and symbolism of the rest of the poem. ... Hughes continues to make his point through the symbols of inanimate objects as the poem goes on. ... At the time of the poem's origin, this dream was considerably almost over. ...

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One of her brilliant and arguably her most powerful poems was that entitled "White things". In this poem she expresses that the world is made up of colors such as the earth, sky, and sea. ... One of her most famous poems was "the black finger". in this poem she expresses that African Americans are beautiful people. ... His poem "if we must die" was published in 1919 and was one of the very first poems initiating the tone, subject, and matter of the literary movement. As the poem suggests, believed that it was the poets duty to politically inform the people. ...

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Langston Hughes discusses dreams and what they could do in one of his poems, "Harlem." Hughes poem begins with "What happens to a dream deferred..." ... This poem also addresses what happens to aspirations that are postponed or lost. ... "Harlem" is an open form poem. ... The poem does not choose the dream but leaves it up to the reader. ...

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Through his poems, Langston Hughes describes his community, which was still in the south of the United States. ... Through his poem L. ... (Hughes 588) These are lines from Langston Hughes' popular poem, Theme for English B, published in 1951. In that poem Hughes narrates in a simple manner the life of blacks in Harlem, in all his poem he uses the rhythmic rhyming as an accessible language. ... All this poem is made with many symbols, and in an important part of the poem he avoid totally all the adjective and just focused on the verbs: " I like to work, read, learn, and understand lif...

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In Hughes's extremely short poem, "Harlem", the poet asks "What happens to a dream deferred?" ... If not for this opening line, the reader might be left wondering what the objects in the poem symbolize. ... The poem "Ode on a Grecian Urn" leaves the reader with the impression of a spiritual death. ... The imagery used in the two poems differs considerably. ... An angry tone in "Ode on a Grecian Urn" would only make this poem more confusing to the reader. ...

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The racial conflict between the father and son is demonstrated by intense dialogue throughout the poem and is further developed by the anger and hate fueled language between the pair. ... In the opening lines, Hughes places his readers directly into the natural setting of the poem as he writes "The moon over the turpentine woods. ... This is the first place within the poem where we see emphasis placed on the color "yellow". ... A similar parallel is drawn further into the poem as the white man describes the brutal rape scene in which the narrator was conceived. ... The end of t...

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Hughes could have used the poem to speak for one race of people, but he didn't. ... The poem has no particular rhyme scheme but it does use assonance and consonance. ... In the next to the last stanza he tells the reader that he has spoken plainly throughout the poem. It is Hughes" most important line of the poem when he swears "America will be!" ... Hughes ends the poem in a way that shows his real strength and determination. ...

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His poems expressed the impatience of African Americans to become treated equally. In his poem entitled "America", he speaks of the contradictory lifestyle that Americans lived. ... He became very famous for his poem "I Too", which also spoke of the same inconsistencies. ... A famous poem that he wrote on the struggles of black people was entitled "From the Dark Tower". I believe in this poem he discusses the inequality of blacks period, not only in America. ...

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Realism Hughes poem "Mother to Son" was written during the Harlem Renaissance. ... Writing exactly what he thought, his poems are very realistic, very similar to him. ... Living in Harlem most of his life, Hughes can easily relate to the "splinters and torn up boards" talked about in his poem. ... This poem is often called an inspirational poem. When read, the message of this poem is made very clear. ...

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"Mother to Son" is one of his earliest poems; he is only 21 when he creates this beautiful tribute to his ancestry. ... The poem places the reader in the position of the son, listening to his mother draw lessons from her life that can be applied to his own. ... The title of the poem sets the stage of a mother getting ready to give her son advice. ... This is the principal statement of the poem and introduces the metaphor. ... The poem also gives the reader the history and optimism of Black American culture as a display of faith, optimism and undying spirit. ...

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His poems "I, Too" and "Dinner Guest: Me" talk of how he and his people are this spirit. Hughes Black American roots and his sense of racial equality was what fueled most, if not all, of his poems. ... His poems tend to be about social injustice save but a few. His poem, "Ballad of the Landlord" speaks of racial injustice as well as the discrimination of social classes. ... His poems inspired a great deal of people and his poetry is still a big influence in modern day society....

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Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes The Poem "Let America Be America Again" is a very emotional and moving poem. ... As the poem goes on it shows more and more the cruelty and hardships certain people would have had to experience in that time and how hard it was for these obstacles to be overcome. The poem speaks of America's dream for freedom and for all to be equal. ... The poem speaks of young men who dream of growing up and making their own profit but finding the world an "ancient endless chain of profit, power, gain, of grab the land". ... The charact...

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Many authors have written poems stating their own definitions of poetry to expand on that of the dictionary. ... Although the poem is short in length, it has a great meaning behind it. ... The title of Hansberry's play comes from Hughes's poem which had a double purpose. ... Through out the poem Hughes asks a number of questions, which perform a part in the play. ... Although Hughes" poem is short its historical references add to it's portrayal of poetry. ...

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His first poem was about his eight teachers and his class. This was the longest poem he has ever written. The only poems he liked as a child were Paul Lawrence Dunbar's and Hiawatha. ... At his high school, he wrote poems for their newspaper the Belfry Owl. Langston tried to write his poems like Carl Sandburg. ...

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Claude MacKay's "America" is a poem about the African Americans" life and the bitterness of that life resulting from the prejudice and hatred of whites" against them. ... His other poem "If We Must Die" is a rather rebellious one that makes a call to fight against the racial prejudice and segregation and the brutal fact of lynching, which this line implies: "What though before us lies the open grave?". ... What attracted my attention is MacKay's general tendency of the pattern of rhyming as "abab cdcd efef gg" in both of these poems. ... It is a perfect poem about the race-relations ...

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While he was at Columbia "The Crisis" printed several more of his poems, so his work was getting out to to public. ... He started writing poems and short stories before he was a teenager. ... Later on, however,his experiences as a black man growing up in that time period inspired many of his poems. ...

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Langston Hughes" poems and stories reveal the author's comprehension of the Negro culture, and his awareness of their individual work in Southern life. ... His poem, "I, too, sing America", is a perfect example of just that. ... In his poem "Mulatto", he tells a story of being half white and half black and the tension that arises from that. ...

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He wrote this poem while riding on a train to visit his father. ... In this poem, Hughes realizes that he is ready to travel and see the world, the way a river would. ... Upon returning to America he wrote a very popular poem called, "I, too, sing America." ... Hughes finishes off the poem by repeating the title, which is "I, too, sing America." ... He went on to write many more poems, short stories, and plays. ...

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