POEM PORTER: A MARXIST READING OF THE RELATIONSHIP BLACKS-WHITES.

This paper aims to study Hughes? personal concern about the relationships between white people and black people, and analyzes how Langston Hughes through his poem ?Porter? while revealing the relationships between whites and blacks, he denounces and foretells a Marxist relationship between them forever. Indeed in his poem ?Porter?, Hughes investigates the overall relationships black and white people have and foretells a Marxist relationship between blacks and whites with white people occupying the right, dominant, master and ?sir? position and with black people occupying the back, dominated, slave and ?porter? position and resulting in a status of being a ?porter? forever in a society dominated and owned by white people. With many important metaphors, symbols, images and the use of figurative language, and with a thorough analysis following a Marxist, sociocriticism, and stylistics perspectives; we observe that the prophecy made about an eternal Marxist relationship is still a truth because this Marxist relationship is still topical in today?s blacks-whites relationships so that those different positions of ?porter? and ?sir? seem to be fixed positions. This aspect of indeterminate time highlights also a visionary and prophetic speech on the part of the poet Hughes because the today?s stark realities on the economic, social and political spheres demonstrate that nowadays, white people occupy the high position and black people occupy the ?porter? position. This paper thus updates the master and porter relationships white people and black people have and its durability along centuries, decades, and different generations of people.