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Jazzonia by Langston Hughes
Posted by: JasmineDreamer (---.dialsprint.net)
Date: March 14, 2005 06:39PM

I am working on critical thoguth questions for one of Hughes's poems and I need help

Jazzonia by Langston Hughes

Oh, Silver tree!
Oh, Shining rivers of the soul!

In a Harlem cabaret
Six long-headed jazzers play.
A dancing girl whose eyes are bold
lifts high a dress of silken gold.

Oh, singing tree!
Oh, shining river of the soul!

Were Eve's eyes
In the first garden
A bit to bold?
Was Cleopatra grogeous
in a gown of gold?

Oh, shining tree!
Oh, silver rivers of the soul!

In a whirling cabaret
Six long-headed jazzers play.

What is the poems real meaning? I do not understnad the poem.


Re: Help!
Posted by: Pam Adams (---.bus.csupomona.edu)
Date: March 14, 2005 07:31PM

He's comparing a girl that he sees dancing in a Harlem nightclub to Eve- the first woman and Cleopatra- the most beautiful.

pam


Re: Jazzonia by Langston Hughes
Posted by: Hugh Clary (---.denver-03rh15rt.co.dial-access.att.net)
Date: March 15, 2005 12:26PM

Is the form one I should recognize (but don't)? Not exactly a rondel or rondeau, no. What about the title? Suffix -onia, I mean. Perhaps it indicates it is 'about' jazz itself. I have heard of Miltonia and Dickinsonia, but they appear to have separate definitions. Macedonia and pneumonia are not about mace and pneu, either, I don't think.




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