"Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
Title: "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 518 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 518 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
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:
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like the white people, had the potential in their lives to succeed, and the black, just like white people have folks that are sometimes a disgrace to the community. By concluding all of this, he knew that deep inside we are all the same, and that is what really matters.
Work Cited:
Hughes, Langston. " Theme for English B." The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Ed.
Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stalworthy.
New York: NY, 2005. 1434-143