BY: LANGSTON HUGHES

“QUIET GIRL”

In the poem quiet girl, I like it because it talks about a girl that is lonely and has no dreams. But then in the beginning it says “to a night without stars, were it not for your eyes, I would greet you to a sleep without dreams.” I think Langston Hughes wrote this poem because he was sad about something. He wanted to write about something sad. I think this poem means that you have to be happy and talk to people and communicate with them or else you can’t be happy because they can’t help you. This poem is kind of like a metaphor like if you don’t have any dreams you can’t do anything. This poem puts an image in my head that looks like a girl all alone with no friends that can’t do anything because she doesn’t have any dreams. I think Langston Hughes used literary devices to make this poem like interesting and detailed. I think that because in the poem it says “you are like a night without stars”. So that means she isn’t really noticed. In the poem it also says “you are like a sleep without dreams”. That means she’s empty and has no ideas to think of. My favorite line in the poem is how it says “to a sleep without dreams”. I like it because it shows detail about the character and that means something. That is why that line is my favorite line. I like the poem also because I like the literary devices he used. Simile, repetition. That is what I like about this poem.

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