“Island” poem wrote by Langston Hughes‚ Langston Hughes is very popular writer who know for an identifiable rhythm or beat. His poems always make reader aspiration in many ways‚ example his dreams makes readers to think about hidden dreams and lost dreams. “Balloon of the Mind” by W. B. Yeats who is also a popular writer too who received the nobel prize for literature in 1923. However‚ both poems have way different topics where there is no related to each other but the idea of the themes are the
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Salvation Langston Hughes After reading the excerpt from Langston Hughes’s autobiography‚ "Salvation"‚ I pondered the many factors of religion and what makes a person believe in god or not believe in god. I believe that religion is a form of individual expression‚ and that each person should have the freedom to conform his or her identity to whatever religion feels right to that person‚ or even to conform to no religion at all. I think that if I had been in Langston’s position sitting on a mourner’s
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T – Sorrow‚ Solitude‚ Silence T – In Robert Frost’s frantic poem My November Guest‚ Frost uses personification to the extreme by having the speaker’s melancholy depression take on the form and actions of a lover. Thus begins a sort of personal journey in which the speaker analyzes his reasons for being full of sorrow
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Landlord by Langston Hughes‚ the reader is on a journey through the eyes of a black man who is mistreated by his landlord because of his ethnicity. In the poem the tenant goes to the landlord and expresses their worries about their apartment falling apart instead of the landlord helping them he just raises the tenant’s rents. When the tenant decides to try to stick up for himself against the landlord he is the one that is penalized‚ prosecuted‚ and thrown in jail for six months. Hughes wrote this
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Context or Content? “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost has many different interpretations and meanings. The most effective way to understand these is to understand the diction Frost utilizes. His specific word choice and sentences all lead the reader to his meaning. Many critics believe analyzing Frost’s life will add deeper insight into the poem’s theme; however‚ each has looked too deep and has provided overanalyzed ideas. Although‚ multiple critics claim that examining Frost’s context is
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hide one’s true self‚ as seen in Langston Hughes’ “Salvation.” Based on a true experience‚ Hughes exposes how he lost faith in religion as he witnessed his church’s “big revival.” The motif in this piece portrays how children conform to the societal whims rather than expressing their personal beliefs. During the revival‚ the children of the congregation‚ such as Hughes‚ were pressured into going to the church’s stage to become saved. Throughout the piece‚ Hughes constantly claims he is “waiting for
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The Vantage Point Robert Frost’s poem The Vantage Point tells of a man who is lost in the world of people so seeks refuge in nature. A vantage point is a viewpoint from which someone is able to see a wide range of things. The vantage point in the poem is where the man goes to watch the human world while remaining separate from it. Robert Frost could relate to the man in the poem as he spent most of his life as an outcast living apart from everyone else. Since Robert Frost failed as a poet and
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Comparing and contrasting Both utilise dramatic monologues to present inner workings of the characters there by allowing the reader an opportunity to witness the loss of humanity. Shakespeare uses the monologue in act 2 scene 1 to show how Macbeth is a person who can rationalise and reason but becomes dark and deceitful. He appears to be a man who is rational and logical with the questions asking “is this…dagger…I see before me…toward my hand?” “Art thou not…sensible…as to sight?” reflecting that
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Birches’. The poetry of Robert Frost often embraces themes of nature. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ and Birches’ are not exceptions. Frost shows the relationship between nature and humans in both poems. In the poem Birches’‚ the narrator sees trees whose branches have been bent by ice storms. However‚ he favors a vision of branches that are bent as a result of boys swinging on them‚ just as he did when he was young. Here‚ he is connecting humans to nature. Frost also lends sound to his
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Langston Hughes’s poem‚ “Cross”‚ focuses on the conflict of segregation of races that occurred in the United States. The poem is in the first person point of view‚ in which‚ the narrator reflects on himself as a young child‚ as he reaches the adult life. In the short three stanza poem‚ the speaker summarizes his obstacles in life that were caused by his family. The poem begins as the narrator describes the ethnicity of his parents “My old man’s a white old man and my old mother’s black” (line 1-2)
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