Prejudice in Telephone Conversation and Dinner Guest-Me Essay -- Wole

Prejudice in Tele auditory sensation Conversation and Dinner Guest-MeIn the deuce poems, Telephone Conversation and Dinner Guest-Me,each poet engrosss their poetry as a means of confronting and challengingprejudice. In Telephone Conversation by Wole Soyinka, a phoneconversation takes place between an African man and a very artificiallady ab step up renting out a room. When the lady finds out he is Africanshe becomes very prejudiced and racist towards him. Dinner Guest-Meby Langston Hughes is about a black man going to a dinner political party wherehe is the only coloured person there, like he is the token black.Anger and a sense of humour ar shown in both of the poems. In TelephoneConversation the African man is angry at the peroxide blond and isdisgusted at her for being so rude and racist towards him, HOW night?ARE YOU LIGHT OR VERY DARK? The capital letters emphasises theloudness in her voice, whereas, in Langston Hughes poem the otherdinner guest argon not being prejudiced to the only black dinner guestdirectly. Although they would ask him the usual questions that comeinto flannel mind. Here they are set apart from him as a different race,to be part of a Problem on Park Avenue at eight is not so bad. Hesangry because he is still part of the Negro Problem even though he iswith elegant, upper-class deal. Hughes is laughing at the whitepeople complaining about not being black, Im so ashamed of beingwhite, also at the democratic process and him self. He uses satiricalhumour at the dinner party by poking at establishment. He acknowledgesthat I know I am the Negro Problem and is alive(predicate) they have to bepolite about him. Wole Soyinka uses sarcastic humour and makes fun ofthe landlady when he wr... ...ws plenty of anger from Wole Soyinkatowards the artifical, white, public. Hughes also seems to be mad atthe white populace and thoroughly benefits from poking fun at them. Ithink Soyinka is trying to make a point of the phony and vulgarindividuals the re are and draw everyones attentions to them, Hughesis trying to make us realise just how obnoxious some can be todifferent races, likewise to Soyinka. I suppose both poets succeeded,the poems did make me consider how prejudice many persons are.In conclusion I prefer Dinner Guest-Me by Langston Hughes because Ienjoyed the satirical humour he used in his poem and how he made thetoken black stand out from all the other guests. Although I thinkthat both use their poetry well as a means of confronting andchallenging prejudice that was around back in the 1900s when the twopoems were written.