This is similar to the clan in the play because the clan realized their old traditions and they decided to celebrate New Year’s Day in that style. It conveys the message that old ideas are still present because when Mama is still alive, she can show her and teach her...
Dickinson makes use of abstract diction in her poem, using words like bright, delight, superb, and dazzle. Hughes, however, uses more concrete diction, with words such as raisin, fester, sore, meat, and load. No poet better carries the mantle of model and innovator the Langston Hughes, the prolific Duke Ellington...
