"Merry Go Round"
Hughes wrote this in a time of pain and suffering for African Americans in our past time. This poem talks about the Jim Crow laws, and how blacks were treated in the south at this time. Hughes uses the idea of a merry go round to connect readers of how African Americans felt when they were put on the back of the bus. "Where's a horse for a kid that's black?" I feel very angry when I read this, realizing what so many people went through to get us to the point where we are today. It is also very interesting to know that poets write their feelings of anger in their poems.
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