POEM - Always The Same - LANGSTON HUGHES

Question 1

Repetition showing constant never ending exploitation of black people and that everyone’s the same, all have the same coloured blood the differences are only skin

Answer 1

Blood running into

Blood that never comes back to me again

Question 2

Violent imagery to encourage sympathy and to shock. Harsh vocab reflecting brutality of black oppression

Black people defined by oppression. (Define themselves this way, become the oppressed)

Answer 2

Black: Exploited, beaten and robbed, Shot and killed.

Question 3

Their pain is always going to be remembered (black people’s)

Answer 3

“Stains all flags red” (blood)

Question 4

Repeated mistakes

Comparing life to money showing oppression stems from economy/materialistic view suggesting black people dehumanised.

Answer 4

Dollar robbers
Pound robbers
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Life robbers

Question 5

Despite struggles still have hope, been defined by their struggles but stronger now.

Answer 5

‘raise the blood-red flag that Never will come down!’

Question 6

Purpose of poem

Answer 6

Propaganda to have a revolution and to encourage change