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Langston Hughes, Vagabonds
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 text "Vagabonds" is a poem about the situation of some poor men (vagabonds) who haven‘t any house and look for a job. It tells us about the life and rut of these peolpe. The people are shown in their everyday situations. They are all the peolpe who live under bridges or paper house. They haven't anything to wrap up. They have nothing to eat or drink and die of starvation, but they resist. They have no medications. They haven't any job. They suffer in silence, because they cannot weep.
The poetry has some rhymes, but they aren't a lot evident. It make up of a few words that make to understand us the meaning of the poetry. Those words express the situation of those people. The syntactic and grammatical rules seem correct.
The poetry wants arouse us the unhappiness and melancholy of the people who haven't any house. So we must help these people.