Question

Read the following passage from Langston Hughes's "Theme for English B" and answer the question.

It's not easy to know what is true for you or me
at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what
I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:
hear you, hear me—we two—you, me, talk on
this page.
(I hear New York, too.) Me—who?

Hughes points to the "page" several times in this poem. Of what is the "page" a symbol?

A. college
B. self-creation
C. death
D. Harlem

Answer 1

I believe it might be self creation

Answer 2

B. self-creation

Step-by-step explanation:

In this excerpt, Langston Hughes discusses one of the most important conflicts that young adults experience: self-creation. He tells us that he is twenty-two, and that he does not find it easy to know what is true for him. This means that he struggles understanding and knowing himself. However, he tells us that he feels the city talk to him, and he understands what he feels and sees better when it is on the page. The page, therefore, is a symbol of the process of self-creation the author is engaging in.