I look at the world by Langston Hughes

I look at the world

by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

I look at the world

From awakening eyes in a black face—

And this is what I see:

This fenced-off narrow space   

Assigned to me.

I look then at the silly walls

Through dark eyes in a dark face—

And this is what I know:

That all these walls oppression builds

Will have to go!

I look at my own body   

With eyes no longer blind—

And I see that my own hands can make

The world that's in my mind.

Then let us hurry, comrades,

The road to find.

I chose this poem because it seemed to be in the time period of the Harlem Renaissance. This poem is about Langston Hughes experiance when looking out in the world in Harlem at this time as being a man who is oppressed and is assighned diffrent places he can go to because of his race. He is explaining how at this time blacks where not allowed to go wher ever they wanted because it was not allowed.
        The poetic devices that seemed to have some repetition in it because he keeps touching on the ideas of how being black in those times and how people looked at him and how he looked at himself.
       I like this poem because i like how Langston Hughes is explaining his experience  and what he felt during that time. I  like how in the ending of this poem how he writes ,

"And I see that my own hands can make

The world that's in my mind.

Then let us hurry, comrades,

The road to find". Because it shows how though his experience and the things he went through, he is going to try to stop what is going on by using his hands and his willing to help others stop the oppression.