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How Does Langston Hughes Use Personification In Theme For English B

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In Langston Hughes poem “Theme for English B”, the instructor who is white, instructs the only black student in his class to “Go home and write a page tonight, and let that page come out of you, then it will be true” (Lines 1-5). Hughes looks at many aspects of poetry composition from the assignment. Hughes use of personification in this poem, shows human traits to non human things, as in when he was discussing the city. However, Hughes also use visual imagery as well as metaphor. This expands his imaginative and critical abilities as he uses his poem to reflect on racial relations in twentieth-century America. In which it disconnect blacks from whites, showing both the similarities between segregation of races. In conclusion Hughes poem
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