Sylvester's Dying Bed By Langston Hughes

In Sylvester’s Dying Bed, the renaissance poet Langston Hughes, writes about an African American man named Sylvester with his last dying hours, and speaks of his experiences, until a darkness finally awakens. Hughes uses the the characteristics of dialect, to portray how Sylvester speaks to his children plus everyone in town for the last time, and sight imagery as the story is told through the eyes of Sylvester. Lastly, while the tone of sympathy and melancholy is heard throughout the poem. Hughes portrays sight imagery, as he illustrates the story through the point of view of Sylvester. In the (lines 1 and 3-4), he says “I woke up this mornin” and “All the womens in town was gathered round me.” Hughes demonstrates that Sylvester, must have