“Song”

By: Langston Hughes                                                 Review by: G.E.W.               Langston built an image for me by describing the guy’s skin tone in this poem. “Lovely dark and lonely one,” He describes what the guy looks like so this just shows what the guy is like and this builds an image for me from the first stanza. Then from the second stanza, he is describing what the guy is doing, so I can picture the guy with the details from the first stanza. “Face the wall with the dark closed gate, beat with bare brown fists, and wait.” So this is the image Langston built for me.

The literally device Langston used in “Song” is rhyme. I like how the second to last line in the second stanza doesn’t have any rhyme… it just sits there and does its job. “Open wide your arms to life, whirl in the wind of pain and strife face the wall with dark closed gat, beat with bare brown fists, and wait.” See? It doesn’t rhyme with anything. And also he has a rhythm, its sort slow and but smooth, like Carmel. “Lovely dark and lonely one.” Try it sort slowly.

Bare you bosom to the sun. This is my favorite line because I didn’t know what a bosom was then my teacher explained it and I was like “Oh…” because it means your chest area!

I love this poem because it has an image and metaphor that is easy for me to understand. And I like that because I personally don’t like to much of a challenge 1 is enough! This is my review of “Song.”