In another poem, he asks if the title object "crust[s] and sugar[s] over" or "just sags / like a heavy load.
One of his characters calls women "sweet worriations" in "Rude Awakening," and one of his poems begins when a teacher instructs "Go home and write / a page tonight / and let that page come out of you" in "Theme for English B." The speaker of one of his poems says he "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" after "down on Lennox Avenue" he heard a "drowsy, syncopated tune." In another poem, he asks if the title object "crust[s] and sugar[s] over" or "just sags / like a heavy load." FTP, name this poet of "A Dream Deferred" and "A Negro Speaks of Rivers."
One of his characters calls women "sweet worriations" in "Rude Awakening," and one of his poems begins when a teacher instructs "Go home and write / a page tonight / and let that page come out of you" in "Theme for English B." The speaker of one of his poems says he "slept like a rock or a man that's dead" after "down on Lennox Avenue" he heard a "drowsy, syncopated tune."
Langston {Hughes}