Langston Hughes "Theme for English B" and Gerald Graff's essay "Hidden Intellectualism" describe racial separation and intellectual isolation, respectively. Hughes's essay is poetic justice, and Graff's is a call to arms. Hughes' is short and to the point and just is what it is, no arguments or convincing, just raw thinking. Graff is highly intellectual; offering examples and reasoning, and could also be seen as an unfinished plea for the nation to reevaluate our education system. But the many differences in these articles are not what they seem. These so-called “differences” are really just distractions that we choose to see on the surface, but the essays actually work quite well together. When examined closely, looking beyond the obvious superficial differences, Hughes and Graff are essentially talking about the same thing: social separation. One of the main differences between the two articles is the way the elements are presented because the authors are, obviously, different. . This affects the method of exposition of the two essays, although both still arrive at a similar emotional representation. In Hughes' poetry, he has a very crude and sometimes cynical approach to conveying his message. He uses black and white terms and is evident in his attempt to demonstrate the separation he feels others place between whites and blacks. Consider the following lines “So will my writing page be colored? / Being me, he won't be white" (Hughes 800). Hughes senses this separation and states it openly between whites and blacks, without educational boundaries or anything else except racial prejudice. Then, in Graff's essay, he goes much further depth on the topic, talking about educational boundaries and how a teacher can actually achieve results f...... middle of paper ...... of social construction and are really about some negative sides of the human experience Be it white or black, lower class or upper class, separation exists. It is evident from the personal experiences of these authors, no matter what method they use to convey it, be it intellectual or emotional. Social separation, whatever the cause, can be very harmful and it is felt by all kinds of people. Not just blacks or whites, or intellectuals or “Capuchins”. REFERENCES Sughi, Langston. The Norton Practical Guide to Writing with Readings Daly Goggin, ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Compant, 2010. 799-800. Print.Graff, Gerald. “Hidden Intellectualism” They say, I say: the moves that matter in academic writing. Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein, and Russell Durst, eds. New York: Norton, 2009. 297-303. Press.