can anyone help me with interpreting langston hughes's poem, 50-50?

Question

the poem goes like this.
I’m all alone in this world, she said,
Ain’t got nobody to share my bed,
Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand—
The truth of the matter’s
I ain’t got no man.

Big Boy opened his mouth and said,
Trouble with you is
You ain’t got no head!
If you had a head and used your mind
You could have me with you
All the time.

She answered, Babe, what must I do?

He said, Share your bed—
And your money, too.

Answer 1

This is a story about a male prostitute. He realizes the girl is all alone and very lonely. He sees her at her weakest. Probably she confides in him as she laments that she has nobody to share her bed or to hold her hand. She is HUNGRY for a man.

He sees the opportunity and tells her that she should use her mind and think. She could have him with her all the time.

What should I do, she asks?

Pay me, and I will sleep with you and share your world. His argument is he can quit work if she will pay him so he can attend to her needs all the time.

For her, it will look like a good deal because she already knows him and has obviously been around him for some time. He will become what they call a "kept man".

Answer 2

50-50 Langston Hughes

Answer 3

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Langston begins by saying that true Democracy (a government of the people) will not come soon, and will never be accomplished through fear or one person giving up something of their own for another. He expands on the last line of the first stanza by saying that he has as much of a right to freedom as anyone else has (you could interpret this as either 'no one has a right to property' or 'everyone has a right to property', which would drastically polarize the poem towards either an argument for communism or true capitalism). He is tired of people giving up their freedom and liberty so that they will not have to expend any effort, saying that they will not need it when they are dead. He ends by saying that freedom is much needed, but only just begun; a new idea that will grow slowly, but surely as long as people desire it. In the last stanza, Hughes says that freedom is desired by people like himself and the reader, implying that it will indeed continue to grow.

Answer 4

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can anyone help me with interpreting langston hughes's poem, 50-50?
the poem goes like this.
I’m all alone in this world, she said,
Ain’t got nobody to share my bed,
Ain’t got nobody to hold my hand—
The truth of the matter’s
I ain’t got no man.

Big Boy opened his mouth and said,
Trouble with you is
You ain’t got no head!
If you had a head and used your...

Answer 5

she has a 50 / 50 chance of being happy.