1. Themes in the Poetry of Langston Hughes
The poem is at once an innovative modernist experiment and a powerful critique of modernism from a black diasporic perspective. ... The second stanza says "God/Knows why the French/Amuse themselves bringing to Paris/Negroes from Senegal," a very plain and inelegant sentence (qtd. in Moglen 5). A very "working man" sentence. ...
- Word Count: 2547
- Approx Pages: 10
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School