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This 3 page paper explicates Langston Hughes’s poem “Theme for English B,” with special attention paid to the line “So will my page be colored that I write?” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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instructor has assigned a theme: students are to write about themselves. The instructions are to "let that page come out of you / Then, it will be true" (Hughes). Theres
almost nothing more difficult that trying to understand oneself, so the assignment is a difficult one. The poems author recognizes this, when he says "I wonder if its that simple?"
(Hughes). That is, does writing truthfully about ones own experiences make the writing an accurate depiction of the persons life? Does it in fact make it true? Hughes considers that
question in the rest of the poem. The next 20 lines of the poem, from "I am twenty-two through "who are other races" describe the authors background, and his daily
life. He tells where he was born, his education, the cities in which hes lived, how he gets to class and notes that he is the only African American in
class (Hughes). And then he says that "Its not easy to know what is true for you or me / at twenty-two, my age" (Hughes). He says that he guesses
hes what he feels and sees and hears, but that would separate him from his white classmates, who do not experience the same things in daily life that he does.
Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and eat, and the poet, at least, likes being in love (Hughes).
He draws a very wise conclusion: that just because hes black he isnt that different from whites and people of other races; in his words, "I guess being colored doesnt
make me NOT like / the same things other folks like who are other races" (Hughes). Then comes the line that we want to examine very carefully: "So will my
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