In high school, the only negative reinforcement you get is a trip to the principal's office, which just makes your act seem edgier. And that's the thing -- this act only plays in that setting, because the school has to put up with it, and everybody knows it.n high school, the only negative reinforcement you get is a trip to the principal's office, which just makes your act seem edgier. And that's the thing -- this act only plays in that setting, because the school has to put up with it, and everybody knows it.
âThe Negro Speaks of Riversâ is Langston Hughesâs first mature poem. He wrote it in 1920 at the age of seventeen, while traveling by train to visit his father in Mexico. The young Hughes was inspired to pen this verse when his train crossed over the Mississippi River.
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 3:18 PM. In Langston Hughes' poem, Theme for English B, I believe the theme deals primarily with the perceived difference between the white and black experience...and that it shouldn't be a black and white issue. To fulfill an English writing assignment, the speaker goes home and describes himself, providing the instructor with truth..