- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
In this quote from “learning from langston,” Jacqueline copies the structure and much of the language of a poem by Langston Hughes, but inserts details from her own life. The poem becomes an ode to the closeness of Jacqueline’s relationship with Maria, who is the friend that Jacqueline references.
Jacqueline’s imitation of Hughes’s poem indicates that Jacqueline is beginning, not only to find literary works that she connects with, but also to imitate them in her own writing. Jacqueline’s discovery of her writerly influences is an important step in her journey to become a writer because it gives her new…