ATIVIDADE LITERÁRIA - POEMA "NEGRO" DIA DA CONSCIÊNCIA NEGRA

 

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Negro

(Langston Hughes)

 

I am a Negro Black as the night is black.

Black like the depths of my Africa.

I've been a slave:

Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean.

I brushed the boots of Washington.

 

I've been a worker:

Under my hands the pyramids arose.

I made mortar for the Woolworth Building.

I've been a singer:

All the way from Africa to Georgia

I carried my sorrow songs. I made ragtime.

I've been a victim

 

The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.

They lynch me now in Texas.

I am a Negro Black

as the night is black,

Black like the depths of my Africa,

 

Extracted from <http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Hughes_Langston.html>

Accessed on December 6, 2009.

VOCABULARY:

arose: surgiram

depths: profundezas

lynch: lincham

mortar: argamassa

ragtime: gênero musical afro-americano do séc. XIX

slave: escravo

sorrow: tristeza

ATIVIDADE: CONSTRUA UM ARGUMENTO EM INGLÊS EM SEU CADERNO SOBRE O POEMA.