I found the poem, "Harlem," by Langston Hughes to be extremely powerful, albeit short. Although this poem was written in 1951, while America was still largely segregated, I feel this poem can relate to the racial minority groups of any era. ... This poem could relate to anyone today, who has a dream. ... Out of the 7 sentences in the poem, 6 of them are questions. ... He is trying to soften the poem a little bit. ...

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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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"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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The first poem that I read by Langston Hughes was "I, Too." ... The second poem by Hughes that caught my attention was "Mother to Son." The words of the poem are the words of a mother to her son. ... Thirdly, is the poem "Negro" also by Langston Hughes. This poem opened my eyes to the long suffering of the "[n]egro." ...

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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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For Hughes, this was the perfect opportunity to establish his poems. ... Like the earlier poem "Harlem Night Club-, it is a fast-paced, forceful piece. ... The poem is written in rhyme and has a flowing, nursery rhyme feel. ... This poem shows the growing bitterness in Hughes' life. ... Before his death in May of 1967, he wrote his final poem "Flotsam."" ...

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The poem is composed of three couplets. ... (Selected Poems 125) In this poem Hughes is truthfully voicing his thoughts and opinions with a humorous twist. ... The poem "pleads for fulfillment of the Dream that never was. ... In this poem, Hughes dream is becoming a more of a reality. ... Suddenly half way through the poem it takes on a new twist. ...

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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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Hughes's poem, "Children's Rhymes- conveys a sense of inequality even children felt, as a line in the poem suggests. ... This poem spoke not only of Hughes's feelings but every African American's feelings toward an unjust society. ... The poem is a series of questions asking about the final state of a dream if it is never actualized. ... There is also a line in the poem about the dream being like syrupy sweet crusting over. ... These poems as a whole reflect Langston Hughes's feelings of social injustices in society. ...

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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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"Harlem" is a short poem by Langston Hughes who is a known African American writer of the 1900's. Hughes poem "Harlem" inquires what happens to dreams deferred. The poem basically is asking what happens when you postpone a dream in general. ... Langston Hughes the author of the poem "Harlem" asks "what happens to a dream deferred?... Harlem is very influential poem written by Langston Hughes. ...

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Continuing to write poetry, his first published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." ... Since the time when he wrote the poem blacks were still segregated, it is about segregation. The poem is about a dream that he saw a million black faces, such as his own. ... In the poem Parade, Hughes writes about how there is a parade going to happen involving black people. ... Hughes writes some good poems, but parts of them do not make sense in my mind. ...

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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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Images and Symbols The two main symbols in this poem are the warm and cold as well as the offices. ... Sound Devices Robert Hayden writes this poem in a sonnet form, which is evident because there are 14 lines total, in this poem although there is no particular rhyme scheme present. ... Hayden keeps us guessing about the purpose of the poem until the very end. ... Rhythm Although the poem has no set rhythm, it does have a certain flow and appeal. ... This poem keeps you guessing through the end which can be confusing at first but once you read again slowly one can appreciate the speakers ...

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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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Hughes's strong sense of racial pride shined throughout the poem. ... At the age of 17, while on a train ride to Mexico, Hughes wrote the infamous poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". ... In a few minutes, Langston had finished a poem," (Rampersad). ... Therefore, when Hughes wrote the words of this poem, he was the voice of all Negroes. ... In the last line of the poem, Hughes states, "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." ...

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During Hughes' lifetime he published many different works including poems, novels, and even children's books. ... The poem describes that he has battled many things to become who he is. ... This poem relates to the poem "I, Too" just without human interaction. The difference between the two poems is "I, Too" focuses on a specific conflict, whereas this poem is broad in its meaning of conflict and it can be depicted in a few different ways. ... The poems and stories he wrote are easily understood unlike other works by various authors. ...

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"Mother To Son- is a poem and "Thank You M' am- is a short story. ... The poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers displays his uses the imagery of rivers to demonstrate the connection with the earth and nature in his poem. In this poem, the speaker in the poem has known rivers; he speaks of rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. ... The language in this poem paints a morbid picture of a racist south. In this poem, nature is harsh, unfair, and cruel. ...

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The opening line to the poem is the most important, because it sets the direction of the poem itself. ... Hughes portrays other images and comparisons of being an African American living in an early 20s in the rest of the poem. As the poem progresses the development of the comparison becomes more intense. He ends the poem with "Or does it just explode?"... "I tried to write poems like the song they sang on Seventh Street (these songs had the pulses beat of the people who keep on going" An example of this is his poem "Harlem Sweeties" the sound and tone as the poem is being...

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