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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. At rest on a stair landing, They feel it Moving beneath them now like the deck of a ship, Though the swell is gentle. And deep in mirrors They rediscover The face of the boy as he [...]

The poem I am thinking about doing for my essay is “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes. I like this poem because I think the narrator is trying to explain how he is not very much different from the other “white” students in his class. He explains that he likes a lot of the [...]