Dieu A Un Enfant Affame. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker
Dieu A Un Enfant Affame. (Translation) .
Enfant affame,
Je ne creai pas ce monde pour toi.
Toi, tu n'achetas pas de rentes dans mon systeme de chemin de fer.
Tu n'investas pas en ma corporation.
Ou sont tes actions en la petrole standarde?
Je creai le monde pour les riches
Et les riches de l'avenir
Et ceux qui ont toujours ete riches.
Non pas pout toi,
Enfant affame.
-'God to Hungry Child'. Langston Hughes. 'The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes', op. cit., p.48. (Poems 1921-1930) .
did not make the world for this hungry child, but for the rich. The child has no shares in any company, no stock in the railroad, as rich men do. The poem criticises God and the rich, who own the world. God ignores the hungry child. The poem succeeds as a piece of satire and it expresses Langston Hughes's left-wing views quite strongly.
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