Naw, you ain't my brother. Niggers ain't my brother.
Hughes uses explicit wording to confront the reader with the cruel reality of racism. He utilized words that demoralize African Americans. The repeated rejection of the boy by his white father highlights the examples of social and family dysfunctions caused by racism. By exposing this , Hughes is taking an anti racist approach by the way he reviews and refuses to normalize the racist attitudes of others.
Magnified apples appear and disappear, Stem end and blossom end, And every fleck of russet showing clear.
Frost is using visionary imagery here to transform nature into seeing the world in a new, almost dreamlike way.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough And held against the world of hoary grass. It melted, and I let it fall and break.
Frost is using ice as a metaphor for the changes that he see's in the world. Frost is turning everyday things like ice into something unreal.
With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz – Between the light – and me –
Here, Dickinson uses the fly buzzing as a reminder of the material world, interrupting the sacred weight of death. Instead of having a heavenly vision, the speaker keeps getting distracted by something so small as a buzz from a fly. The blue stumbling buzz gives character to both the sound and movement, giving the reader a sense of disruption. This creates a feeling of unease for the reader. Instead of having peace or transcendence, the fly completely blocks the speaker's vision of passing. The emotion begins to shift from anticipation to frustration. Dickinson may be showing how death isn't always peaceful but can be interrupted by something so small. Creating a tension between expectation and reality.