... to Cleveland, Ohio, for his stepfathers work. Langston was interested in poetry, but it was when he found poems by Carl Sandbury, when he became seriously influenced by the un-rhyming, free verse style. After graduating from a highschool in Cleveland, Langston spent a year with his father who had light skin, there his father found a release from the racism of the North ... because it is simple to interpret and I can imagine my mother telling me something like this. The mother is telling her son about the hardships of her past, she uses words like tack, splinters, and boards torn up and ...

• Word Count: 1840
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School