Theme For English B by Langston Hughes.

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Theme For English B by Langston Hughes

The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am the only colored student in my class. The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem, through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down, and write this page:

Langston Hughes Born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin Missouri Died May 22, 1967 As a kid he was primarily raised by his maternal grandmother Attended Lincoln University and Columbia university Active poet during the Harlem Renaissance

Form/Meter The poem is a free verse poem with an irregular rhyme scheme an a rhythm that changes as the poem goes along

Allusions There are several allusions made in this poem Johann Sebastian Bach BeBop Jazz (“Bop”) Bessie Smith The YMCA

Figurative Language In the Poem, the usage of imagery and symbolism is ever present Use of black and white polarization Usage of irregular rhyme pattern "Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you. Then, it will be true." Personification: “and let that page come out of you”

Literary devices Rhetorical Question: “will my page be colored that I write?” Assonance is used many times in the poem

Theme and Tone The overall theme is that you are defined by your actions, not your physical qualities The tone is Honest or the concept of Honesty and how it relates to race, the American dream, and school and the racial predispositions of the times

Additional Questions What are some of the examples of literary devices presented in the poem? What do you think is the message he is trying to convey in the poem?

Works Cited Shmoop Editorial Team. "Theme for English B Poem Text." Shmoop. Shmoop University, Inc., 11 Nov. 2008. Web. 1 Mar. 2017. Biography.com Editors. “Langston Hughes Biography.” http://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes- 9346313, A&E Television Networks, 27 Jan. 2015. Web.