Is it a or b correct me if im wrong i put b-island
which excerpt represents the call-and-response format derived from jazz music?
deferred
by langston hughes (excerpt)maybe now i can have that white enamel stove
i dreamed about when we first fell in love
eighteen years ago.
but you know,
rooming and everything
then kids,
cold-water flat and all that.
but now my daughter’s married
and my boy's most grown--
quit school to work--
and where we're moving
there ain't no stove--
maybe i can buy that white enamel stove! island
by langston hughes (excerpt)black and white,
gold and brown--
chocolate-custard
pie of a town.

dream within a dream,
our dream deferred.

good morning, daddy!

ain't you heard? harlem
by langston huges (excerpt)does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
or fester like a sore—
and then run?
does it stink like rotten meat?
or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Discussion

It's A but you need more of the poem to see why.

Tack this onto the bottom of what you have.

Someday,

I’m gonna buy two new suits

at once!

All I want is  

one more bottle of gin.

All I want is to see

my furniture paid for.

All I want is a wife who will

work with me and not against me. Say,

baby, could you see your way clear?

Heaven, heaven, is my home!

This world I’ll leave behind

When I set my feet in glory

I’ll have a throne for mine!

I want to pass the civil service.

I want a television set.

You know, as old as I am,

I ain’t never

owned a decent radio yet?

I’d like to take up Bach.

Here the two voices complement each other like a jazz piece where one sets up what is to be said, and the other answers it.

The wife starts with her white enamel stove and the wish of finishing high school. She sees herself entering the empty nest stage and she's resigned to it happening. Her daughter is married already, and her son is "most grown".

Then the other voice,  the husband, comes in. His wants are simple. I couple of new suits, store bought, a radio, a bottle of gin, and a wife that works with him. Of the two, he is the least happy. Though he looks realistic in his wants, like they could be attainable, they really show a discontent that will be very hard to overcome.

She's just sad.

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~courtney