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A 4 page paper which compares and contrasts the poetry of Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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relationship to their subject matter, the way in which they compose their prose, and their particular use of imagery. But, as is the case with most literary artists, one can
surely find things that the two share in common in their poetry. The following paper compares and contrasts poems from Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes. Walt Whitman and
Langston Hughes The poems to be discussed by Walt Whitman are Germs, A Hand Mirror, and The Ox-Tamer. The poems from Langston Hughes are Dream Deferred, Dinner Guest: Me, and
Justice. The poems from Whitman deal with subjects such as the universe, aging, and the simplicity of a man who tames oxen but is illiterate. In Langstons poems the subject
is a bit more social and urgent. His poems deal with being black, and legal and social justice in the nation. As an African American man who grew up and
lived after slavery but also during the time of injustice and Civil Rights, one can see that his poetry was not so much about sentimental and poetic thought as much
as it was about pressing issues in his society. This is not to say that Whitman did not have such poems, or that Langston did not write poems similar to
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet speaks of how wondrous it is that
this man, a gentle man, has the ability to truly tame oxen to the point where they become docile and beautiful creatures who are "uneasy...when he moves away from them"
(Whitman [3] 22). He speaks of the pleasing appearance of the ox and in the end simply illustrates that the only thing he really envies this man is "his fascination"
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