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Can someone show me how to learn how to interpret poetry?

Here is a poem from a package I have to do for my English class. I've never been much of a talent for extracting the meaning of "deep" poems. I would really grateful if someone could make me go in the right direction, because I feel better for it. Dark dusk Railroad Avenue. Lights in the joints fish, the lights of the pool halls. A box-car train some forgotten in the middle of the building. A piano player, a phonograph 942 Is the number Lounging A local boy. A young girl crossing the skin with purple powder. Laughter suddenly taut as a drum. Suddenly laughter Neither truth nor lie. Laughter Hardening twilight evening black. Laughter Shaking the lights in the joints of the fish, the Rolling white balls in billiard halls, and leaving intact the boxcar Some train forgotten.

much of the poetry they give you at school is just not very good, and is difficult to analyze because there is really not much value to dig out of it. Langston Hughes was an African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance. life of the black population in America of 1930s were very different in the lives of white people. more attractions every day for a black person (fish joints, a jukebox bar where we danced on files on a cheap wind-up gramophone "gambling figures" – 942 was the number) would have things white people never heard of. poem is just a series of postcards from the life of Langston Hughes "as a black person in urban areas. Think of it as holiday private snaps. White People (who were the main readers of poetry in America, until very recently) have found these pictures alien. …. but you're not a white person who grew up educated in the 1930s, making it difficult for you to see the point in this poem. …. Modern rich white kids are also fascinated by what she wants to be black, but they find out by listening to artists as 50 percent. 50 cent gives you a taste of the ghetto, and because the ghetto is a strange place for you, it seems interesting. Langston Hughes poem is here just do the same thing as 50 Cent or Kanye West rap done – but it does for white adults in the 1930s or 1940s.

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