Vagabound by Langston Hughes

Vagabonds
by Langston Hughes
We are the desperate
Who do not care,
The hungry
Who have nowhere
To eat,
No place to sleep,
The tearless
Who cannot
Weep




The vagabonds are people who have been rejected from society. I feel that I was once a vagabond and that’s why this poem is an appealing one. I can relate to this poem because I was the desperate to have friends but couldn’t make any and I was a vagabond in ZIS society. This poem is very reflective on the world around us. Some of us have the ability to eat, sleep, cry and not be desperate these are the people that are the "cast a way's" in our society. When I think of the word Vagabond I think shoes but its cast away or rejected from society. This poem is very cleverly written which appeals to me because it’s a reflective poem but also, in a sad way, funny. It is funny because its so straight to the point and straight forward and most poetry is not and that’s why I dislike poetry. This poem is about out casts and rejection.

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I think that this poems underlying theme is that death and how you shouldn’t die with out a casue. I think that this is about a father dieing and his son urgeing him not to give up. In the poem he uses
words like:rage, dying and light this refers to again how not to die and your last fight to fight. Death in this is your last fight and wise men know this, that’s why he uses Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they as a metapohre. The reason he names it do notgo gentel into that good night beause if you would go gentel into your death your not trying. I still don’t get how good men are who want to die still arnt a good person