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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOOD MORNING, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, daddy! / I was born here, he said Last Line: Daddy, ain't you heard? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): From Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Good Morning Subject(s): African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks | |||
Good morning, daddy! I was born here, he said, watched Harlem grow until colored folks spread from river to river across the middle of Manhattan out of Penn Station dark tenth of a nation, planes from Puerto Rico, and holds of boats, chico, up from Cuba Haiti Jamaica, in buses marked New York from Georgia Florida Louisiana to Harlem Brooklyn the Bronx but most of all to Harlem dusky sash across Manhattan I've seen them come dark wondering wide-eyed dreaming out of Penn Station-- but the trains are late. The gates open-- Yet there're bars at each gate. What happens to a dream deferred? Daddy, ain't you heard? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AUNT ELLA MAE by MICHAEL S. HARPER DERRICK POEM (THE LOST WORLD) by TERRANCE HAYES ODE TO BIG TREND by TERRANCE HAYES WOOFER (WHEN I CONSIDER THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN) by TERRANCE HAYES CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL 50-50 by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES |
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