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Analysis and comments on Democracy by Langston Hughes

Comment 5 of 5, added on March 16th, 2006 at 9:57 AM.

This is good

tom a from United States
Comment 4 of 5, added on December 10th, 2005 at 10:10 PM.

This poem touched something deep inside. It happens so often that in the
business of our daily lives, we forget about what is going on in the world
and we become desensitized. We should stand up for the right no matter
where we are and protest against the wrong no matter how far from our homes
it is taking place.

Naheed from Pakistan
Comment 3 of 5, added on September 27th, 2005 at 8:46 AM.

we shall respect one another as children of god and let the prisioners of
there country free. let the hungry eat at the table no matter what color
dont be racist to your kind grow up to a world of freedom .

elizabeth gonzalez from United States
Comment 2 of 5, added on April 6th, 2005 at 3:20 PM.

i think this poem effects more than just americans, imagine all those
people who don't even have the right to speak their minds. also this is
definitely clearly relevant to the times of segregation for african
americans, hughes himself was black and never was able to shout that he is
truly happy and has freedom and equal rights and that is what he was
fighting fo

Lori from United States
Comment 1 of 5, added on February 2nd, 2005 at 12:37 PM.

I am born on america soil and want my freedom now.
They say we are free. But I feel we a still held in bondage, it is in a
different form. Every American Citizen
should read this poem and reflect on how he or shee is living her life. We
all have a right to choose but can we without being opress by the laws
goveren by your state.

Dorothy Hutchinson from United States



Information about Democracy

Poet: Langston Hughes
Poem: Democracy
Year: 1949
Added: Feb 20 2003
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