I been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,

Looks like between ’em they done
Tried to make me

Stop laughin’, stop lovin’, stop livin’–
But I don’t care!
I’m still here!

Analysis, meaning and summary of Langston Hughes's poem Still Here

31 Comments

  1. alisha says:

    A slave is beaten up so much… he is afraid of so many things. his hope have been scattered just as the wind scatters the fallen leaves. the snow has curled him tightly and where the sun symbolizes happiness even that has given him pain. the happiest and the saddest moments only pain him.between the slave master and the authorities he has been tortured enough.even if people stop laughing,loving living. he is yet there and will always be there.

  2. Frida says:

    I just love how this poem is so simple yet so incredibly strong! and I how I can really relate to it.

  3. Kira says:

    This is a great poem. Just saying I don’t care I’m still here seems so Powerful. You can overcome anything if you have the right attitude. Stay strong now, things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.

  4. Kira says:

    This is a great poem. Just saying I don’t care I’m still here seems so Powerful. You can overcome anything if you have the right attitude. Stay strong now, things will get better. It may be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.

  5. ReBecca says:

    This poem relates to me so much..i love it!! Its amazing!

  6. Jimmy says:

    Everyone, L. Hughes died of cancer, get over it.

  7. mark says:

    this is the greatest poem I have ever heard. Mykee preformed at my school, and it changed my life he gets a 5/5

  8. lev says:

    to the person who said he killed himself…

    he didnt kill himself, he died of cancer. unless you’re saying he killed himself with cancer.. i’d suggest you get your facts right.

  9. bjb says:

    Just a comment to the poster “Andrew.” Langston Hughes did NOT kill himself. He died following abdominal surgery.

  10. Barbara says:

    I’m not much of a person to read poems, but when I got a assiment to reaserch a poet any poet and do a project about that poet I was amazed on how well this poem discibed his life. This poem is now one of my all time favorates. I enjoyed reserching him and I am happily saying I got a A+!!!!!!

  11. Andrew says:

    I know this is an amazing poem… it has helped me alot, but i was thinking about what some of the comments said, about how langston hughes was a strong man. well he was, but clearly this poem didnt meen much in the end, becouse he killed himself. sorry to be brutal but if he never killed himself i think this poem would be more meeningfull… btw mykee is pritty cool guy.

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