Step 1 (6 points) For each of the poems in the Langston Hughes document, find the theme of the poem and write out a statement about it.

Step 2

(15 points) In 4-5 sentences, explain which words and ideas made you think that this is the theme of the poem.

Some one drawing water and my theater placed my hand under the spout. as the cool stream gushed over one hand she spelled into the other the word water , first slowly , then rapidly . i stood still ,my whole attention fixed upon the motions of her fingers . suddenly i felt misty consciousness as of soothing forgotten --a thrill of returning thought and somehow the mystery of language was revealed to me this passage from the stoyof my life is an wxample of which element of plotclimax action