Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Is the a setting in this poem by langston hughes. "the negroo mother"?
The poem is not set in a specific place. It talks about places that were important in black history -- for example, it mentions crossing the ocean from Africa to North America, and it mentions "the deepest South" where generations of slaves labored under cruel conditions -- but the speaker is not talking to people in one particular location. She is addressing all black Americans, urging them to remember the suffering of their ancestors in the past, to prize their freedom in the present, and to continue struggling for justice and equality in a better future. (Hughes wrote at a time when Jim Crow segregation was still the law of the land.)
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