Weldon Kees

In his poem, “Harlem”, Langston Hughes uses imagery in order to emphasize the various negative effects that a “dream deferred” can have on the human psyche and to give reason to always fulfill them. First, Hughes gives the reader the image of a raisin in the sun drying up. A raisin begins as a grape full of life and juice then turns into a raisin when essentially the life is sucked out of it. This powerful imagery alerts the reader of the dire consequences that can result from this dream…

Dream Variations is a poem written by Langston Hughes... In his poem, Langston Hughes wishes for an untroubled life away from color harassment and racial discrimination... The title of the poem mentions Langston Hughes’s main themes, that is, dreams, particularly the dreams of African Americans...Langston Hughes tells that this poem is dedicated to the workers, roustabouts and singers, and job hunters...In the poem, Hughes’s embraces and tries to embrace, day and night, light and dark, white and…

whereas other poems showcase a different approach such as the poem “Speech to the Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward” which is positive. In the first line, we are introduced to Weldon Kees ' Daughter, whom, judging by the lines "Beneath the innocence of morning flesh concealed, hinting’s of death she does not heed” (“Kees” 2-3).…

The poem “Her Kind” by Anne Sexton and “For My Daughter” by Weldon Kees share similar concepts of gender inequality, but in very different ways. Sexton’s poem is written from a woman’s point of view, while Kees’s is from the male perspective. Written by the opposite gender, and only twenty years apart, both poems share the same outlook on gender inequality: women are less superior to men. Sexton uses the symbol of a witch to portray the view that women hold offensive power, and Kees’s fake…

think that when the author was writing "For My Daughter" he was envisioning about his child, however he thought that it was preferable not to have any child because of the poor medicine during that time. Example: For example, at the end of the poem Weldon Kees says, “Bride of a syphilitic…