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Poet: Langston Hughes
Poem: Merry-Go-Round
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Sep 6 2003
Comment 17 of 17, added on May 7th, 2008 at 5:34 AM.
there is irony in his poem, the light-hearted tone contrasted to the sadness in the normality of racism.
Student
Comment 16 of 17, added on February 25th, 2008 at 5:10 PM.
This is not reffering to Rosa Parks, it is simply showing the unfairness the little kid is experiencing. Jim Crow is an old song that was back in those days and in the poem it is refering to the set of laws called the Jim Crow laws. The term jim crow comes from an old comedian that blackened his face with a burnt cork and danced and sang to jump jim crow this rediculous skit making black people look un-human. He came up with this skit after watching a crippled black person doing the same thing on the street
cole from United States
Comment 15 of 17, added on February 18th, 2008 at 4:25 PM.
this poem rox my sox!
Dani!! from United States
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there is irony in his poem, the light-hearted tone contrasted to the sadness in the normality of racism.
Student