Langston Hughes begins his poem with his instructor telling him to write a page. It seems that he doesn’t know what to write about in the first part of the assignment. He writes of his way home and sits down to write the page. (If you think about it, you are reading the poem that the poem is about. It made my mind run in circles.) This poem made me think. How much does our background weigh in people’s minds as they read our words? Does it actually influence the impact of our words? Langston Hughes difines his poem in saying it is not white, but it will be a part of his instructor who is white. The words connect them. He writes, “That’s American.” The looking past the color of skin and taking value in what a person has to say. The author talks about how our words, when read by others can connect us. Do not words connect us all? Our thoughts and ideas being shared with one another as we put them to paper.
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