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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
Comment 14 of 17, added on February 16th, 2008 at 10:11 PM.
I think that Langston deals with more then just one issue when he mentions
a merry Go round. Merry go round's go in circles. I think he laments that
racial injustices are like circles that have no end. The fact that he shows
up a controversial issue through the eyes of a child is also a poingnant
detail.
Becca from United States
Comment 13 of 17, added on January 7th, 2008 at 6:56 AM.
The merry-go-round symbolizes the perfect system of life: justice, equality
and freedom neatly survive... No back sits for black... No front sits for
white: the merry-go-round keeps going around and around, and there's noone
marching at the very top of the row!!
Anna from Italy
Comment 12 of 17, added on March 28th, 2007 at 12:08 PM.
this poem is very simple and very interresting but he has to be analysed i
think that "there ain't no back to a merry go round" is irronical
Sophie from France
Comment 11 of 17, added on May 3rd, 2006 at 8:20 AM.
"four stars"
no name from United States
Comment 10 of 17, added on February 21st, 2006 at 9:36 PM.
the poem is merly the confusion of segragation and discrimination threw a
child's eyes. it is writing about how blacks (back then) had no equality or
liberty and in my opinion the merry-go-round is symolizing that every spin
is change and that we should change and unite all races.
rnr from United States
Comment 9 of 17, added on January 2nd, 2006 at 12:00 PM.
Could this poem possible have a double meaning? I agree that the speaker
feels he doesn't have a place on the Merry-Go_round (or in life) and that
he doesn't have the same opportunites as whites. But could it also depict
an ideal life where there is no more segragation, but the speaker just
doesn't know how to react becasue the Jim Crow laws, etc have created an
instinctive impression that all blacks should be oppressed? Could it mean
that Hughes felt people had to want equality in order to understand and
repect it and thats why he wrote his poems? Just a thought. I could be
way off adn reading way too much into this.
Alysson
Comment 8 of 17, added on December 7th, 2005 at 7:58 PM.
This is quite an interesting poem filled with irony and facts. Langston
Hughes really stretches the imagination with a simple poem. He makes the
reader think about it, there is no back to a merry-go-round!!
Ryan 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