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        <title><![CDATA[How does Langston Hughes use rythem, meter, &amp; other writing styles...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Langston Hughes use rythem, meter, &amp; other writing styles to represent jazz/blues in his stories &amp; poems?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:17:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The two previous posters' comments are good. Allow me to point to an...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/poem-harlem-by-langston-hughes-can-there-more-10255</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The two previous posters' comments are good. Allow me to point to an earlier post of mine that discusses the structure of Hughes' poem "Harlem" and to add that there are (depending on how you define the term) probably many more figures of speech in the poem, other than simile and metaphor; among these are alliteration and anaphora.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:57:52 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would encourage you not to see the poet Hughes as the speaker in the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would encourage you not to see the poet Hughes as the speaker in the poem "Harlem." It's certainly fair to see overlap between the two, but the "I" in the poem -- much like the "I" in "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and in many of Hughes' other poems -- may very well be much larger than a single individual.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:22:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Let me add to the previous post by saying that the citations on enotes...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/citations-already-apa-format-71335</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Let me add to the previous post by saying that the citations on enotes that I have seen are all in MLA format. One of the quickest ways to tell APA from MLA is to look for the year of publication. In APA, the year is given early, after the author's name. In MLA, the year appears at (or, in the case of internet sources, toward) the end of the citation.
The previous poster is absolutely right. The citation styles are easy enough to learn, and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:18:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The word choice -- or diction -- in Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" seems...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The word choice -- or diction -- in Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem" seems to me to be very straightforward. The poem uses very few words -- maybe even just one, "syrupy" -- that are over two syllables in length. Most of the words, too, seem very concrete; the most abstract word in the poem is probably "deferred."
This straightforward, concrete word choice may have the effect of the making the poem seem very easy to read and to understand....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:12:05 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I really like the previous answers and want to try my own hand at...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/how-can-you-rewrite-this-poem-113119</link>
        <description><![CDATA[I really like the previous answers and want to try my own hand at rewriting the poem. One of the main purposes of rewriting, I think, is to explore the structure and the full range of meanings of the words in the original. Ideally, too, there will be little repetition of the original words in the rewritten passage. So here goes:
When I don't get what I really want
What happens in me when I don't get what I really want?
Does what I really want...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:04:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rewriting, or paraphrasing, is a useful exercise when considering the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/how-can-you-rewrite-this-poem-113119</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Rewriting, or paraphrasing, is a useful exercise when considering the meaning and the structure of a poem. First, sometimes when we put a poem into our own words in prose we gain a clearer and deeper understanding of the poem itself. This is always a benefit to you, the reader, and to the poet as s/he then has a greater and more appreciative audience. (Don't rewrite into poetry--that would be a different exercise altogether and might...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 11:16:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ 
Your question isn't really clear, so I'm just shooting blind here,...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/how-can-you-rewrite-this-poem-113119</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ 
Your question isn't really clear, so I'm just shooting blind here, but I'll give it a shot. The Langston Hughes poem "Harlem," is well known and much referenced. The classic play, A Raisin in the Sun took inspiration from it. How could we rewrite it, and why would we choose to is an interestng question. Sometimes if writing poetry is difficult, we can get the creative juices flowing by mimicing the form of some well written poem such as...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 10:41:17 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How can you rewrite the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/how-can-you-rewrite-this-poem-113119</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How can you rewrite the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:11:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hughes does indeed use free verse in most of his poems, as the previous...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hughes does indeed use free verse in most of his poems, as the previous poster states, but "Harlem" is at least as structured as many of his other pieces and, I believe, can be analyzed more fully in terms of its meter and verse form even if we still agree that it, too, is an example of free verse.
Let's begin by looking at lines 1-5. The third and fifth lines have end rhyme ("sun" and "run"). We can call this pattern "alternating rhyme" and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:32:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Langston Hughes employs many examples of figurative language in the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/what-figure-speach-poem-harlem-108333</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Langston Hughes employs many examples of figurative language in the poem.  The overwhelming use of imagery, or mental pictures, populate the poem in helping the reader understand the implications of dreams that are not recognized or are deliberately put aside, away from view and silenced from voice.  The questions offered are done so in a series of similes, or comparisons between objects that use the term "like" or "as."  These are seen in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:07:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the word choice in the poem "Harlem"]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the word choice in the poem "Harlem"]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:24:13 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the figure of speech in the poem "Harlem"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the figure of speech in the poem "Harlem"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:18:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The speaker in the poem holds an examining attitude towards the American...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/what-speakers-attitude-107921</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The speaker in the poem holds an examining attitude towards the American Dream.  The speaker in the poem offers different perspectives towards the dream in America.  The theme of the poem is to question the reality of dreams that are set aside.  Set amidst the condition of those in America whose voices are denied, the speaker in the poem posits possible results from the opening question of "What happens to a dream deferred?"  The attitude...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:38:28 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the speaker's attitude in Harlem?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/what-speakers-attitude-107921</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is the speaker's attitude in Harlem?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[1 problem about it alluding to king his speach was after this was made]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/poem-harlem-by-langston-hughes-can-there-more-10255</link>
        <description><![CDATA[1 problem about it alluding to king his speach was after this was made]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:28:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is fairly interesting to examine.  I think that the speaker in the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/whos-speaking-104399</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is fairly interesting to examine.  I think that the speaker in the poem could be Hughes, himself.  The idea of Hughes positing himself in his poem could be quite plausible.  Given the background of articulating in his own mind the condition of African Americans in the early 20th Century, he certainly would be able to speak quite lucidly to the implications of deferred dreams.  Additionally, given the fact that Hughes was one of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:28:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is speaking?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who is speaking?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:21:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[One primary level of similarity between both Hughes' poem and Dunbar's...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/compare-contrast-poetic-elements-paul-laurence-98059</link>
        <description><![CDATA[One primary level of similarity between both Hughes' poem and Dunbar's poem is that they speak for those who have no voice.  This becomes a critical element in understanding their point of view.  Through their poems, Dunbar and Hughes are suggesting that the voices of those who are silenced are narratives that must be shared, understood, valued, and appreciated in order for the democratic experiment called "America" to live up to its...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 04:36:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Compare and contrast the poetic elements of Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/harlem/q-and-a/compare-contrast-poetic-elements-paul-laurence-98059</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Compare and contrast the poetic elements of Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" and Langston Hughes's "Harlem."]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:23:26 PST</pubDate>
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