'Ballad Of The Landlord' By Langston Hughes

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Antagonistic voices within “Ballad of the Landlord”
In “Ballad of the Landlord” there a multiple of narrators. Each voice has their own perspective within the poem. There are four major voices in the poem. The antagonistic voices are the tenant, the landlord, the police, and the press. Which, Langston Hughes doesn’t give any character a name. The antagonistic voices of the press, the police, the landlord, and the tenant amplify an African American man’s experience in a society that is mostly dominated by whites.
The main voice in the “Ballad of the Landlord” is the voice of the tenant, who we know is black because of the last line in the poem, “JUDGE GIVES NEGRO 90 DAYS IN COUNTY JAIL” (line 33). The tenant is characterized how most blacks
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