positive or a negative manner. Choices can also dictate whether or not someone reaches their wildest dreams. As everyone has lives full of choices‚ everyone has dreams. But as all things do‚ dreams progressively get more and more realistic with age. “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost‚ and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes are two well-written poems that have similar real-life themes; choices‚ and dreams. “The Road Not Taken” can be affiliated with many real life situations. “And sorry I could not travel
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Bop Neva Ends What is Bop? In “Bop” by Langston Hughes‚ the narrator describes Bop as Be-Bop‚ the opposite of Re-Bop. The general idea of Be-Bop is that it is current‚ makes sense‚ what the colored boys play and that it is authentic. This leads to Re-Bop having the definition of being white boys play‚ an imitation‚ and complete nonsense. In “Bop”‚ a character by the name of Simple is stating his own theory on the origin of Be-Bop music to an unnamed narrator. Simple uses his somewhat ethnocentric
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The poem discusses Hughes’ background and identity as a person of mixed race‚ a white father and a black mother. To go about how he feels about it‚ he uses both literal and implied definition of words. When he states that “My old man’s a white old man” and “And my old mother’s black” he simply states his parents’ identity. He uses the literal definitions of the words “white” and “black” and describes his parents with color and no other way. The title of the poem‚ “Cross‚” however‚ can be used to
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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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Let’s reflect together on Black History Month. Langston Hughes was born in the early 1900’s where abolishment of slavery had just ceased in America. The 13th amendment which stated‚ "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States." Langston Hughes was fortunate to have lived in a time where African Americans were encouraged to observe their legacy. You can see his words fiercely lashing out in behalf of African Americans who‚ not too long ago‚ were freed from
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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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We as humans are born a different race‚ but we are still the same. In Langston Hughes "Theme for English B" his diction created an atmospherical representation of the world that he lived in and the world where we wanted and hoped to live. The speaker in the poem explains that although he is black and the instructor is white they are still the same. "I feel and see and hear‚ Harlem‚ I hear you: hear you‚ hear me-we two-you‚ me talk on this page‚" represents the use of his diction‚ but also his imagery
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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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Langston Hughes is one of the most well known American writers of poems‚ screenplays‚ articles‚ children’s books‚ and songs. He was inspired to write by his mother‚ Caroline Mercer Langston‚ who dabbled in the art of poetry throughout her life. Artistic interests and inclinations were known as a heritage to him‚ and it is no surprise that he proved those traits to the world through his famous writings full of jazz rhythms and blues structures throughout the Harlem Renaissance. His usage of music
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Langston Hughes was an American Poet‚ He wrote novels‚ short stories and plays‚ as well as poetry‚ and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing‚ as in his book-length poem Montage of a Dream Deferred (Holt‚ 1951). He comes off like a really cool professor who is super smart and asks a lot of questions. His poem is a free verse. “Harlem" consists of eleven lines broken into four stanzas. The first and last stanzas contain one line‚ while the
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