Problems by Langston Hughes

One day I was listening to a Podcast in English what I try to do sometimes just to practice my Listening Skill. It's a good way to improve and work on your vocabulary as well. I recomend you all to do the same thing. If you're a begginer, you should start taking a short time a day to listen to something in English, and then the time can increase time after time. You may hear a lot of things in English, by listening to music, for example - it's nearly impossible not to hear anything in English actually - but listening to a podcast made for this purpose, to you who are a student of English as second language, wil involve you much more. On this podcast, it was being discussed about an American writer named Langston Hughes (he was an African-American born in the state of Missouri, who wrote alot of things about racism) and Of course I had to search for other work by him, and then I found a book which contains his most important and famous poems. There are many interesting poems in this book, but I got interested mainly for this one: "Problems". It's a very simple poem, not hard to read, though it's no easy to understand it fully the first time you read. If you read it you might think it doesn't make sense at all LoL. Anyhow, it's enough. I'm gonna show you the poem and you should comment saying what you think after reading it, Ok? I wonder there will be a lot of ideas about the poem, some people may understand, others probably not. But it will be funny to read all the commentaries and controversies that can show up from the reading of it.


Problems
(Langston Hughes)


2 and 2 are 4.
4 and 4 are 8.

But what should happen
If the last 4 was late?

And how would it be
If one 2 was me?

Or if the first 4 was you
Divided by 2?



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