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The poem hs an AAB rhyme scheme. It talks about a man that sits all day long just singing an old blues song. I enjoyed this poem because I really like the rhyming and I somewhat dig blues music. I'm just a little confused because I started to think that the man was homeless, but then it said he was playing a piano. I don't think homeless people have pianos.

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This poem is about a stressful life and a near death experience making a man realize his life's worth. After jumping in the river, he mentions a elevator going up sixteen floors. This could be him "going to heaven" for a brief moment as he nearly died. He uses the word "weary" a lot, highlighting it's significance, and to establish how the author feels. This story is a nice change of pace because rather than complaining about life or wanting to die, this is a man who realizes life's value and wants to live on.

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This poem uses a "crystal stair" as a metaphor for life. It's from the perspective of a mother giving advice to her son, teaching him that although life is difficult you have to keep "a-climbin' on."

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I liked this poem because you could interpret it in several different ways.  It has a sad, slow, musical tone, using music descriptive terms  referring to jazz and the blues.

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This poem almost completely consists of heavily descriptive words, talking about what happens when you ignore your dreams. It brings up a lot of strange ideas and thoughts, about what happens to a dream deffered

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I loved this poem a lot. It does not get me lost and the tone in it is just the way it should be and when I  mean it was the way it should be it was just smooth.Their was not a lot of stops and it was just a beautiful peace of work.

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The tone is a sad and I see a lot of imagery.  Also I see personification as he describes the piano. The author ties music into his poem.

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Mother to son focuses on the message of youth and dream and symbolizes life as a stair case.

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In where blues it showed a lot of sad emotions through the way it was written. Blues tended to be a melancholy type of music. Even with the tone being down I feel it got the point across of being a poem to make you think about it even more with the feeling it gave you.

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I noticed that the author talks about the music in a personified way. "He made that poor piano moan with melody" and "I hear that Negro sing, that old piano moan..." (Lines 10 & 17). The author is also very detailed in his description of the man playing his music. He says how the man played liked a musical fool, how his foot thumped on the floor, and when he was done he couldn't get the Weary Blues out of his head from performing it so often.

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I thought that this entire poem was a mother talking to her son and telling him that even though you may encounter hard times you need to keep going. To me this poem showed hope because she always believed that she could keep going no metter what. This poem was different becase there was no ryme scheme where as the other ones had some sort of rhyme scheme.

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I saw Langston Hughes uses a few metaphors at the beginning and end of the poem.

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Where happens to your dreams and admiration's when you stop dreaming them.
dry up- go to the back of your mind and die?
syrup sweet- could there e good in it?
explode- just plain end? Never to be thought of again
Johnathan Febish

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Briannah Conly)

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Briannah Conly)

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Rivers are used to connect smaller bodies of water to Oceans.  They are always moving and changing but they will always be there.  Langston Hughes says in the final line of the poem "My soul has grown deep like river."  My interpretation of this was that rivers are the start of something much larger much like babies to adults.  The people you surround yourself with will shape who you are and whether you are a pebble or a grain of sand, you have to start somewhere.  Reaching your full potential can be compared to a beautiful sunset.

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I really like the message that the poem delivers about dreams, I agree with the message. The only problem I had was since the poem is so short, I had trouble discussing or writing notes on it.

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I noticed that the whole poem was like a dialogue from a mother speaking to her son about a valuable life lesson which is to keep moving forward as life gets tough. I liked how Hughes wrote it out exactly how they talked in the old day with all the improper grammar and such. Is there a reason to why there was no rhyme scheme? Was he focusing on delivering a message more than anything?

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I noticed that it has a ABCDCEDE Rhyme scheme which I personally enjoy because I think poems flow better in my head and are easier for me to red when they rhyme.
I really liked the message it gave. I like that it is encouraging the readers to go for their dreams  before it is too late.

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Cassidy Cleary)

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Cassidy Cleary)

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I noticed that he rhymed words in some spots throughout the speech, he also used a lot of  metaphors.
I liked what he said about New Orleans turning golden in the sun, he was referring to the muddy river of New Orleans turning Golden and more visible in the sun and I can connect to that. What confused me was when he was talking about Euphrates, I don't know what those are.

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By giving many ideas as to what happens to a dream deferred, Hughes was able to pose the question to everyone's mind as to what happens if you put off your dreams for something more important. Of course, you wouldn't want to do that, so the poem gives the reader some food for thought as to if something is really THAT important to put off your aspirations.

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Baily Pichler
I liked the metaphors that life itself was compared to, such as a bird or a frozen field. My favorite line was "Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly."

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Erin Senn)

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"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (Erin Senn)

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I saw that this piece could be easily be interpreted into multiple meanings depending on how said reader thinks.
I really enjoyed this piece because out of the multiple times I read it, i got something different out of it every time.
The tone of this piece feels like a wise old man talking to his grandchildren about the hardships of life, it's very knowing despite not saying anything specific.

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