Analyze how the poem works and/or what it is intended to do.
In his poem “Johannesburg Mines,” after stating the shocking number of native Africans working in the mines, Langston Hughes poses the question, “What kind of poem / Would you / Make out of that?” (lines 4-6). With Hughes’ poem in mind, write a 1,300-word essay about either “A Bronzeville Mother Loiters in Mississippi. Meanwhile, A […]