‘Instructor’s Name’
Reaction to poems of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is a well known poet of the Harlem renaissance era, and his poems are famous for their themes of social and racial protest. His works are known for the profound insights they give into various social issues such as, black discrimination, life during the depression era, and effect of the World War II on American society. A hallmark of Hughes’ poems is, the emphasis he places on ‘Black pride’ and the way he eschews self pity. He was proud of his ancestry, and his poems reflected the concealed anger and pain, ...