Question

What role do justice and fairness play in the poems you read in this unit? Write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery and figurative language to depict justice and fairness, the lack of it, or the desire for it.

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Dream Variations” by Langston Hughes and “The Tropics in New York” by Claude McKay both depict a longing for another place. [ What are the places and what do they represent? 2. In Langston

Background Hughes’s poem “I, Too,” the speaker refers to himself as “the darker brother.” In “A Black Man Talks of Reaping,” the speaker refers to the white man’s children as “my brother’s sons.”

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