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POETRY Poetry: Compare and ContrastThe poetry “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long” written by Nikki Giovanni and “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes have been composed by African-American poets who have been victims of racial discrimination since childhood. Their poems depict the same period, 1950-51 of their early days. Where one poem narrates a thankful letter to the librarian who helped the poet explore the world of books, especially those that were not available in the Black library and had to access from the White library, and there is another poem that cites the experience of a Black college student who has to write a page about himself, which he believed would be full of racism, complexities of identity and social belonging. Hence, the thesis could be:“African American poets showed a great representation of racial discrimination they faced being a Black minority in their literary works.”The poem “Theme for English B” involves racial segregation, identity, and subtle hints of the poet’s age. In contrast, the theme for the other poem, “A Poem for My Librarian, Mrs. Long,” is childhood, pleasure, books, and thankfulness to the librarian. Moreover, alliteration has been used repeatedly in “Theme for English B” as consonant sounds of ‘h’ has been utilized with words like hear, Harlem, and hill. Similarly, alliteration…

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…her to read. “Theme for English B,” tells about differences between the student himself, Black, and his instructor, who is White.

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The poet writes, “I guess you learn from me- although, you’re older- and white- and somewhat more free.” The poet might not be really happy to see his instructor and his ways, while this is not the case in the poem about the librarian. Therefore, it is apparent that besides all the similarities of both of these writers, especially the representation of racial discrimination, which was explicit in both of the selected works, there has been a contrast in the exhibition of ideas to the person they are….....

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