Choose one poem from those attached here by Langston Hughes and select a few lines to explicate. Type out the 3-4 lines and unpack their language, imagery, metaphors by writing out, in a good-sized paragraph, what you think those lines mean. How persuasive are these lines? What kinds of arguments do they make or what kinds of pictures about America and the American Dream do they paint?

Choose one poem from those attached here by Langston Hughes and select a few lines to explicate. Type out the 3-4 lines and unpack their language, imagery, metaphors by writing out, in a good-sized paragraph, what you think those lines mean. How persuasive are these lines? What kinds of arguments do they make or what kinds of pictures about America and the American Dream do they paint?

Choose As I Grew Older
By Langston Hughes

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