Sara Barlow
Composition II
M W 8:00
2/3/2013
“125th Street” Response
I loved this poem, because it shows how wonderful 125th street is. With all of the similes that are used each one depicts a different feeling of 125th street. “Face like a slice of watermelon, grin that wide” (Hughes 1147). This simile shows the excitement and happiness of someone that is walking down 125th street.
His style of writing interests me, because when he writes he doesn’t tell you up front what the meaning is but he gives clues and you have to read between the lines to get the meaning of the poem. Every poet has their own style but Hughes’ style puts out explanations of African-Americans, jazz music, and many more subjects that have been a portion of his life. These foundations are what inclined him, and shows it in everything that he has inscribed. He uses blues and jazz styles for themes and for construction in his pieces of literature. In Hughes' poetry, he would try to bring out the rhythms from blues and jazz music. He would also use comedy, aloneness, and misery, to copy the sound of jazz and blues music with verses.
I agree with Hughes’ about 125th street, because there is so much that can be done on 125th street and you have just so much emotion. You are happy, excited, joyful, and glad to be there. Even though I haven’t been there I can tell that there is so much feeling that it overflows.
In lieu of the poem "125th Street" Hughes’ in a sporadic moment is relating African Americans, for centuries discrimination has troubled the uniqueness of people, this is what he wrote "Race like a chocolate full of nuts and sweet. Face like a jack-o-lantern, candy inside. Face like a slice of melon grin that wide"(Hughes 1147) prejudice had clouded the image of African Americans and thought poems including this one that Langston Hughes tried to redefine his race in the senses of the