I took a look at the world

 

 The poem I chose to read was "I look at the world" because I felt that it had a similar theme to the poem we read in class "Let America be great again". Both of these poems follow a common theme of a corrupt world where people build walls of oppression for those who are poor and colored. However, Hughes rejects these ideas, he wants people to acknowledge the fact that America isn't what it’s promised to be, intact he wants to change it; and the only way to change this is if we all band together to fight. In the poem Hughes also uses a concrete word describe the shape of the world and how it is molded to be corrupt, he does this to show that the barrier that is set by the world can be torn, it’s not something that we have to let control us, it’s something that we need to brake. He uses humor to help ease it in too, he calls these walls “silly” downplaying how major this problem is in hopes of recruiting us to his call to action.  This poem also relates to current day issues like social and racial inequality, as it depicts the world as a corrupted fence that ensnares people of a lower social class or a different color. This poem was written in 1930, even after 100 years these problems are still prevalent in todays society and if we really want to make a change, will have to band together and fight this fenced off space, not as a single person but as a group.,


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  1. ArjunNovember 5, 2023 at 12:30 AM

    I also wrote about the same poem, and I found it interesting about how we talked about some of the same things but also some different and the different features we chose to analyze.

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  2. Mithun NandhakumarNovember 5, 2023 at 2:47 PM

    in Hughes's poems the use of Imagery is very prominent. In the poem I chose he also used imagery to support his theme.

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