Literary Analysis Of Ballad of The Landlord

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It helps the reader understand that the living quarters in which the tenant lives in is not the best of shape and the landlord just refuses to fix the items that need repair. Also in stanza four, lines thirteen through sixteen state "What? You gonna get eviction orders?........... Throw it in the street?". The quotes aforementioned create the image of a tenant and landlord having a dispute over simple repairs. The quotes show, that even though the tenant and landlord are having a dispute over simple repairs, it is nothing new to the tenant and he hears things like this all throughout his life.
Langston Hughes decided to use very specific and particular diction while he was writing "Ballad of The Landlord". The form of diction that Hughes used is called colloquial diction. Colloquial diction is the speech patterns of a certain region or area of the world that relate to a certain group of people. In stanza one, lines three and four state "Don't you `member I told you `bout it" and ...

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