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Theme For English B

            
             "Theme for English B- is a poem by Langston Hughes in which a black student in a predominantly white college takes a seemingly simple assignment as an opportunity to inspect the complicated issue of race relations in America. The assignment instructs: .
             Go home and write.
             A page tonight.
             And let that page come out of you ".
             Then, it will be true. (2-5).
             In his response to the assignment Hughes points out that we are often reluctant to admit that our similarities are more common and occur more often than our differences. Even though he is black and perhaps feels out of place in a white school, he obviously is very talented or he wouldn't be in such a prestigious establishment. The poem takes place at his desk in his home and follows his train of thought to the end, where he decides that his brainstorming is as honest an opinion as he was ever going to get. Whereupon he decides to turn in his brainstorm as his response to the assignment. Langston Hughes provides plenty of information about himself in the first half of the poem, for example, that he was "born in Winston Salem- (7) and his school history first Durham, then Columbia University. He tells us that he was the only "colored student in my class-, Then he takes us on his journey home where from that prestigious establishment of Columbia he returns to Harlem through a park, crosses St. Nicholas Ave. where he arrives at the Harlem Branch Y takes the elevator and sits in his room.
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             In the second half of the poem he inspects the similarities between himself as a.
             black man and the instructor as a white man. The interesting aspect of this poem is how.
             Hughes perceives and feels about this color difference and reflects on the difficulties in.
             analyzing those differences, "It is not easy to know what is true for you or me- (16).
             First what brings these outwardly different people together? What do they have in common? Langston points out that we are more similar than we are different.


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1. Analyses of "Theme for English B

"Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes is a powerful poem. ... "Theme for English B" is a poem about a young freshman student asked to write a theme for class. ... The student writing the theme expresses that even though he is just twenty-two, he differs from no other twenty-two year old. ... He wants the professor to not see the theme as just a colored personality it. ... To him they are all just young men studying English. ...

  • Word Count: 296
  • Approx Pages: 1
  • Grade Level: High School

2. Theme For English B

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. ... This is my page for English B. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ...

  • Word Count: 1896
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

3. An Analisys of Theme for English B

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. ... This is my page for English B. ... Analysis At first glance, Hughes" "Theme for English B" seems to be simply the reflections of a young college student on his relationship to his school, home, and surrounding society. ...

  • Word Count: 1930
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Upon A Hill: Reflection of Langston Hughes' Theme For Engli

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  • Word Count: 799
  • Approx Pages: 3
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: High School

5. English B theme

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6. Poem Analysis - Theme For English B

In Langston Hughes, "Theme For English B," I intend to argue that the character throughout the poem is trying to find identity and purpose, and this is done through symbolism, imagery, and diction. ... The character then reveals to the reader with uncertainty of who he is that, "I guess I'm what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you"(3) he is both apart of Harlem and his predominately white English class, feeling lost in the middle and relies on his instincts to feel something in the cold world he lives in(1), "feel," "hear," "see,"...

  • Word Count: 1440
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: High School

7. Analysis of appearances

Theme for the Unknown, Red Transportation While the four poems, "Public Transportation," "The Unknown Citizen," "The Red Wheelbarrow," and "Theme for English B" encompass a wide variety of styles, they all address a similar theme. ... The last poem, Langston Hughes" "Theme for English B," is concerned with appearance in terms of race and the relevance it holds to the person within the skin. The narrator tells the reader of his assignment for English class - to write a page that comes out of him (Hughes). ... This concept is in sharp contrast to the theme of the other three poems. ... "Them...

  • Word Count: 832
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8. Shakspeare

Harris, Laurie Lanzen, and Emily B. ... According to this article the theme of the novel is Jane's confrontation with passion. ... They say that this is truly an English novel. ... A Century of the English Novel. 1925:102-121. ... Society and Self in the Novel: English Institute Essays. 1955:26-50. ...

  • Word Count: 1615
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9. Compare and Contrast of

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  • Word Count: 393
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

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