I Look At The World Figurative Language

Have you ever overcome anything big? Have you done something that you're proud of? Well if you have you probably used a strong feeling to overcome this. In the poem “I Look at The World” by Langston Hughes he shows himself overcoming something pretty big he realized that he can end oppression. This is also shown in Sonnet by James Weldon Johnson because he uses juxtaposition many times throughout his poem to show how when times are dark there is a way out. In the article “Saint Peters displays great endurance and courage in shocking Kentucky.” The basketball team shows great endurance and courage in the attempt to go all the way in the tournament. With a strong feeling of courage you can accomplish and overcome big things–this is the theme shown through figurative language and character change in the texts “I Look at the World”, “Sonnet”, and in the article “Saint Peters displays great endurance and courage in shocking Kentucky.”

He shows courage well in lines 9 and 10 when the author says “That all these walls of oppression builds Will have to go!” This is showing his courage in what he says he wants to get rid of the walls which represent limitations in his life. Also in lines 13 and 14, Langston Hughes states that “And I see that my own hands can make the world that is in my mind.” This is him realizing that he can change the world, he does not need to wait for others to do it for him, he can do it himself. Another way that the author showed courage was in lines 15 and 16 he states “Then let's hurry, comrades, the road to find.” He says this to take action and go do it himself. By using “the road to find” he means that there is a way and they just need to find it. Langston Hughes uses figurative language to establish the theme in “I look at the