To Show Jazz Music that Expresses as Sorrow and Loneliness
American can live happily, however, the African-American workers have to struggle for their life. The persona seeks for the American Dream, where life is
fair. He seeks for a revolution and he asks the other African-American workers from around the world. He wishes that through the revolution, there is no more
starvation, cold and depression. In addition, the writer figures out multiple negations in the sentence But
me, I aint never had enough to eat; Me, I aint never been warm in winter and Me, I aint never known security. Hughes uses multiple negations to emphasize the
unfair life of the persona, the opposite situation of American Dream. Through the multiple negations, readers can see how the unfair life of the persona. Besides,
multiple negations show strong reasons why the persona wants a revolution. The fourth poem is entitled
“Deferred”. It tells a story of a man who wants to get a proper job and stable life, but he cannot since it is too late for him to get
an education. The poem can be read in datum 60SD04. The writer figures out two syntactic deviations in this poem. They are multiple negations and inversions.
The multiple negations can be seen from the sentences and where were moving there aint no stove and I aint never owned a decent radio yet?. These two
sentences imply a poor life of African-American people. There are no proper household appliances when he moved at the first time. Besides, he never had a
decent radio yet. Thus, the multiple negations are used to show the poor life of African-Americans in this poem.
On the other hand, the inversions; such as I always did want to study French and Heaven, heaven, is my home; are used to portray the American
Dream. The persona always wanted to study French, but he never did. The persona also wished that his home was as nice as heaven. In this sentence, the
inversion was used to show the American dream wished by the persona. Overall, the writer figures out some syntactic deviations in these four
poems. They are used to portray American Dream which is wished by African- American at that time. The syntactic deviations show the poor condition or unfair
life and also the American Dream that they wanted at that time. Among those syntactic deviations, multiple negations are mostly used by Hughes to portray
those conditions.