Essays on James Langston Hughes

Dreams often come as crucial aspect of our lives and a focus of close considerations since they often are considered the inner sources which drive our actions and behaviors and vastly define who we are. Meanwhile, the deferred dreams have great impact on the personality and affects one's attitudes and perceptions in many different ways. Just as there is a diversity of dream, the experiences related to its deferral are both widely diverse and truly unique, as it may be seen in the characters of the “Fences” by August Wilson. This essay thereby aims to analyze the dreams of ...

Harlem Renaissance Poets: Essays on Langston Hughes’s “Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage” and Harlem Renaissance-Inspired Poem (Student’s Full Name) (Name of Professor) Harlem Renaissance Poets: Essay on Langston Hughes’s “Jazz Band in a Parisian Cabaret” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage” and Harlem Renaissance-Inspired Poem According to David Chioni Moore (1996), there “exists and existed in this century a black culture that is neither African, Caribbean, American, nor European, but is rather all of these at once and more” (p. 49). The previously mentioned statement encapsulates both the dilemma and the ...

Paul Laurence Dunbar was one of the first influential poets in the movement that would become the Harlem Renaissance. Older than some of his peers within that group, he published his first poems in 1889, in the Dayton Herald, also serving as class president and class poet despite being the only black student in his grade level. He initially wanted to become an attorney, but his mother did not have enough money to send him off to university, so he started looking for work in his downtown, Dayton, Ohio, but found that there were few openings for black applicants. ...

Answering the question of who one is may be one of the most difficult aspects of the human experience. Identity is one of the great problems, as each person is led to determine who one is and how to lead one’s life, with the aid of others. Usually, most people believe that they know who they are, yet this really turns out to be a conglomeration of different decisions and influences from life events. Some of the most important and influential people that one has during one’s childhood are one’s parents and other adult figures. Nevertheless, ...

Langston Hughes Poems

Life is not just a perfect picture with all puzzles joining together at once. One time it opens you the door of paradise, but other one throws you to the chasm of disappointment and loneliness. If people learn to find joy in every day and keep on going in spite of any life troubles, they will reach beautiful destination and create their own happiness. Only the most courageous ones, who are ready to follow their dreams and run the risk, will definitely choose the quickest and easiest path in the fascinating life journey. Dreams of course can not magically ...

Introduction

It was a unique time in history; slavery had been abolished, Jim Crow las were in effect but the civil rights movement had not yet begun. Voices like Langston Hughes spoke out against the racial oppression. Hughes himself wrote many short stories, poems and plays in his time. One of the themes that repeats itself in the works of Hughes is the word “mulatto”. “Mulatto”, a word used to describe a person of mixed black and white heritage, elicits a negative feeling or response from most people given the prejudiced nature of the word. Due to the negative nature ...

Analysis of the title of the play “A Raisin in the Sun”

Introduction The title of the play, “A Raisin in the Sun” has in depth meaning based on the literal outlook. First, we can look at the meaning of Raisin. A raisin is a dried grape. So, when we look at dried grapes, when left in the sun, the probability is that they will get worse in such a way that, a person might not admire them. The title thus has a direct connection to the story which is about dreams and realizing them in life. Many times, people often forget about their dreams letting distractions come on their way ...

The poems “I Too” by Langston Hughes and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost are two poems that are written by different author. However, if to look closely both of the poems look at the problem of choice. It is important to analyze both of the poems separately in order to trace the common theme. The exacting importance of this ballad by Robert Frost is really self-evident. A voyager goes to a crossroads and necessities to choose which approach to go to proceed with his trip. After much mental open deliberation, the explorer picks the street "less went ...

Langston Hughes poetry and social activist

Langston Hughes was an American social Jazz Poet, novelist and an activist who used American language, religion, music, slang to educate the globe about the lifestyles of American people at the times of Harlem Renaissance. The main theme that trolled in his poems were the social problems of the blacks who lived in low earning settings (Carl, 2004). Much of critique targeted the prejudices and the divisions that were common in the people of color within the community of the blacks. The poems were activist in nature as they dealt with how to be oneself issues and encouraged the ...

Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes are two great American poets who were concerned with the future of America. In the poem “I Too (Sing America)” Hughes describes a segregated and not perfect America, a world divided by color rather than ideas and freedom. Whitman imagines a brighter future of America in the poem “One Song, America, Before I Go”. Both poems describes and yearns for a better human experience in America. This papers seeks to examine and explore the depiction of America as a place with the potential for freedom and equality. It further explores the treatment of the ...

It is not easy to please everyone at all times. Sometimes the people around a person and the society places enormous pressure to conform and fit into the norms and traditions followed by them that an individual has to compromise his or her beliefs and ideals just to fit in and to be accepted. Fitting in could sometimes involve proving that a person is manly enough, subscribes to certain religious beliefs and does things that do not stand out from the rest of the community. Compromise and ‘fitting in’ is a theme that is discussed by George Orwell in ...

Because Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from Langston Hughes’ poem about the dangers of deferring dreams due to racism, many people assume that the primary theme of the play is the corrosive effects of racism on the souls of African Americans. Indeed, this play is about a family of African American extraction who runs into racism as they try to move from the inner city projects of Chicago to the suburb of Clyborn Park. However, there are other themes at work in the play as well, such as the ins and outs ...

Poems usually focus around different topics. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brook, “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall, “Dream Boogie” by Langston Hughes and “The Red Wheelbarrow” by Williams have a lot of common and different features. It is necessary to analyze each of the poems in order to find them. Gwendolyn Brooks' ballad "We Real Cool" aggregates up the truth that numerous adolescents confronted on the off chance that they cleared out school. Numerous adolescents abandoned the thought of having a future, since they were informed that they had no future; so why attempt. The young men in ...

“Harlem” is Langston Hughes’s most famous poem, in which the author addresses such important issues as racial prejudices and limitations of blacks in the American society. The author presents vivid analogies of a postponed dream which are not violent in their nature but potent to make readers taste, feel, and smell these hopeless dreams, the dreams of African Americans about freedom, dignity, equality, success, and opportunities. The poem consists of eleven short lines presented in the form of questions which are extremely powerful but leave a sense of silence after them. The title of the poem echoes the ...

Discovering fiction

Langston Hughes in "Thank You, Ma'am" and Ernest Hemingway in "A Day's Wait" depict a short period of time from the life of two young boys – Roger and Schatz. Roger is trying to steal a purse from an old lady, but instead he receives a valuable life lesson. Schatz is a young boy, who is ill, and has to lie in bed with influenza. He is informed by the doctor that his temperature is one hundred and two degrees, and the boy has to spend a day thinking that he is going to die. Then his father tells him ...

Introduction

The Harlem Renaissance refers to a movement that took place between the 1920s and the 1930s when Africa-American art and writing exploded. Though there had been Africa-American art and writing before, the concentration of African American voices was biggest during this period in time. The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement was inspired by Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), Alan Locke, the author of “New Negro” and W. E. B. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis magazine. This movement expressed the pride in blacks and motivated many African Americans to embrace ...

Poetry is the kind of verbal art that allows to express all the profundity of the genuine ache of the heart within a very little amount of space. Very often, even having seen nothing but the title, the reader feels that this particular poem will resonate with his or her feelings and bring about sublime aesthetic and moral experience. In my reader's experience, this was the case of the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes published in 1922. Even without reading the body of the poem, I became aware of the intense emotions it carried. My initial impression ...

The United States has a long history when it comes to African American civil rights. Until African Americans gained the same rights as White Americans, the United States was not fully democratised society. African Americans leaders gained the same rights via time, patience, struggle and fighting. The purpose of this paper is to analyze, compare and contrast different ideas and approaches that African American leaders used in order to fight for the same rights for African Americans. This paper is going to be focused about the ways four African American leaders fought for the same civil rights for African ...

“Mulatto” is a play written by Langston Hughes in the thirties of the previous century. The play explores the issues of the race such as lynching and miscegenation as well as the tragedy of family relationships between father and son during a difficult and controversial period in the social relations in America. The author received the national reputation of a dramatist due to the performance of “Mulatto” in 1935 by Martin Jones on Broadway. The play appealed to the public of Broadway because it examined the theme of tragic mulatto that symbolized the failure of the myth of egalitarianism. ...

Langston Hughes’ in his poem "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)" and Lorraine Hansberry’s "A Raisin in the Sun" look at the impact of racial prejudice in the lives of African-Americans. The main idea of both writers is show how the economic effect of how racism leads individuals to dream about a better life. Both writers describe the psychology of having dreams and ambitions, and the how living in a society built on racism conflicts with the success of dreams.

The link between the both pieces is far more intricate than just an individual facing racial prejudice. It is about risky ...

A Postcard from the Volcano by Steven Wallace

This short poem written by Steven Wallace is more about the remains of a person after his demise. It is related more to the impact that the future generations would have as a result of the remains after the death of an individual.

The poem is written in verses of three lines. This short poem written by Steven Wallace, offers a unique perspective to its readers. Steven Wallace starts the poem with imagery as the tone for the entire poem is set through its imagery. Every image that Wallace uses in the poem convey various emotions.

There is significant shift ...

Identity in the play the short story One Friday Morning

Identity refers to the state of maintaining one’s character under different conditions. Identity therefore relates to social situations such as gender, color, class, and community. In African American literature, identity can be experienced in social circumstances that are largely discriminatory. Discriminatory aspects that affect the blacks largely relate to oppression. This aspect molds the manner in which African Americans are confronted with dilemmas regarding their place within the white-dominated society. Ideally, the reality of the blacks cannot be separated in the American society because color provides an inherent phenomenon of identity that manifest in different races.

The aspect ...

Langston Hughes, What happens to a Dream Deferred

Langston Hughes excellent poem is short, yet it is also very deep and focuses on the terrible times the South went through with racial prejudice and injustice the order of the day. Hughes explores the themes of alienation and marginality when he talks about the black man who ends up strung from a tree after being lynched. Although the white man saw lynching as a right, as well as a form of control, the black man was constantly and consistently humiliated by such terrible injustice. Hughes himself experienced alienation and terror almost on a daily basis, and this is not just reflected in ...

Literature

Anzia Yezierska draws Hanneh Hayyeh in a way that makes readers to sympathize with her. Hanneh is a lower class lady who works for Mrs. Preston. She owns nothing that she can really attribute to herself. More so, Preston discriminates her and does not want to treat her in decent manner although she has the ability to do so. This also makes me to dislike Mrs. Preston since she lacks the sense of humanity though she is not fully heartless. She does not view Hanneh as her equal simply because Hanney is poor. A writer can use strong characters that should take ...

Harlem Renaissance is a conceptual manifestation of the blossoming African American culture with particular focus on creative arts. Through considerable inclination to embrace musical, literary and visual arts, Harlem Renaissance accorded artists the opportunity to re-conceptualize the racial stereotypes that had influenced the relationships of the black people within the spectrum of heritage. According to Houston (1989), the period of Harlem Renaissance informed the artistic commentary on the ability of the blacks to break away from the bondage of the Victorian moral value on the basis of the bourgeois shame that characterized racist belief. With regard to this, it ...

The Harlem renaissance is a cultural and artistic movement that changed the nature of African American literature and experience. The poetry of the movement was imbued with personal and third party political and social experiences. There is a raging debate on whether the movement was one of social and political propaganda or that of just the development of art. This paper builds on Du Bois’ assertion that all art is propaganda and should be treated as such. It also explores the claim that the movement was partly a modernist exploit that was aiming at creating a new form of art unique to the ...

Introduction

Discrimination against blacks by whites is a theme that has been explored on various levels and Langston Hughes’ poem ‘Harlem’ is no exception. Here, the poet seems to be bemoaning the fate of the young black man who can never achieve his dreams – they are always deferred, if he is not unlucky enough to end up hanged from a tree in an all too common lynching. The theme of dreams deferred is also strongly present in Lorraine Hansberry’s play, ‘A raisin in the Sun’ that also follows the Hughes poem liberally, even taking its title from a line in the poem. ...

‘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, ...

Langston Hughes has been recognized as one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance and his emergence in the 1920’s as a major poet and writer took the American literary world by storm. His first breakthrough came around 1924 when a review about his work appeared in the New York Herald and Tribune which described him as ‘already conspicuous in that group of Negro intellectuals who are lending dignity to Harlem with a vibrant and genuine art life’. Hughes went on to be a blistering critic of lynching and other injustices against blacks especially in the Deep South. He also ...

‘Instructor’s name’

The theme of racism in ‘Harlem’ by Langston Hughes All literary works have various elements such as theme, imagery, setting, rhythm, metaphors and characters, each used in a specific way to express the views of the author/poet, about the society in which he/she is a part of. Using these elements, an author drives home his/her point of view on worldly affairs. According to Laurence Perrine, there are two primary purposes for any literature – to entertain and enlighten. While entertaining is the easier part, Perrine opines that a literature should do more than just entertain, if it is worth scholarly scrutiny. Harlem ...

It was the 1920s. Slavery was over. African American people were moving by the hoards to the Midwest and the Northeast in search of a better, more equal life. The life everyone deserves. Many of the landed in a neighborhood north of central park in Manhattan known as Harlem. Once there, something magical happened. There was a burst of life—art and music were pouring out of this and other black communities that spanned as far as the Caribbean populations in Paris. While this decade is now lovingly referred to as the Jazz Age, it is the art of the Harlem Renaissance ...

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you: hear you, hear me---we two---you, me talk on this page. (I hear New York too.) Me---who?

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach. I guess being colored doesn’t make me NOT like the same things other folks like who are other races.

So will my page be colored that I write?

Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, ...

Introduction

Form in poetry refers to the physical structure of the poem. This can mean the length of lines, the repetition, the rhyming, and the system of the rhymes. When these features have been organized into a recognizable pattern, then they can be described to belong to a certain form. The commonest forms of poems include sonnets, villanelles, blank verses, and sestinas. The form of a poem aids the poet in expressing the theme and the feelings that accompany the poet’s expression. Form of a poem can be the manner of the complexity of the poem. The poem can be simple and ...

People are either given or seek empowerment from various sources. Some situation that offers empowerment can be viewed by society as morally wrong. Other types of empowerment could be seen as a source of inspiration. In Richard Wright's "The Man who was Almost a Man" and Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son," readers are presented with two very different views on empowerment that they can compare. In "The Man who was Almost a Man," the reader is introduced to Dave, who is seventeen years old. He lives in a world that is dominated by other people who do not view him as a man. ...

Over the course of American history, one particular group has had, arguably, the most unique and challenging struggle since the end of the Civil War – African-Americans. Having come to this country in the holds of slave ships, been asked for hundreds of years to work as property for white men, and only receiving emancipation from slavery as the result of a bloody civil war, African-Americans already had a long road ahead in terms of asserting their place in American society. All manner of significant events and developments have occurred since then to mark their unique struggles – the fallout of Reconstruction and ...

Robert Hayden is considered to be one of the greatest African-American poets of the 20th century; writing many poems about the black experience, both contemporary and historical, Hayden also managed to tackle universal themes of loneliness, desperation, parental approval and freedom. Hayden’s work was deeply rooted in the plight of African-Americans, many poems dealing directly with the anxieties and tensions that existed for minorities even during his time. Living through segregation-era America and the Civil Rights Movement, Hayden’s work becomes seemingly synonymous with the struggles of black people to have a voice in culture and art. In ...

Poets of Harlem Renaissance

One poet once wrote that he lives in Harlem, New York, and He is unmarried and likes ‘Tristan,' goat’s milk, short novels, simple folk and bullfight. The name of that person was Langston Hughes, a writer of elegant and simple images; an observer of details and artist, who approached his work with warmth and well-mannered humor. More than anything else, he greeted the beauty of life; he loved his environment and his black American community, to which he belonged. In a career cut short by his death from cancer in 1967 he whore poetry, short stories, novels, plays and ...

The relationship between parents and their children can often be somewhat contentious, not seeing eye to eye; however, the intention of a parent’s tough love is usually to ensure that their child can survive in the harsh world that lays in front of them. This is exacerbated when individuals of color must teach their children how to deal with a world that does not afford them the same rights and acceptance as white children. This is certainly the case in Langston Hughes’ poem “Mother to Son,” in which a mother discusses the difficulties she has endured as a black woman to ...

Question 1

The most ostensible theme in the story is the search for love. In the novel, Janie experiences the different kinds of love as she quest for that love she has always desired, in search for this love, she gains freedom and independence in the upshot. She experiences a protective kind of love with her caring grandmother; her grandmother does anything within her scope to ensure that her granddaughter is protected and cared for. Once Janie gets married to Logan, she realises a kind of love to that is more similar to that she receives from her grandmother: a protective kind of love ...

English

Introduction Human interest stories like ‘Thank you Ma’am by Langston Hughes have caught readers unawares as they unfolded their plot gradually. The author catches the reader unawares when he places the simplicity of the situation before the audience leaving them to judge for them. The gravity of the boy’s gesture and what could be the fate of an act like his is criminal to say the least. The marked conflict is apparent between the behavior of the boy and the reciprocal behavior of the lady. The boy is a destitute fending for himself through sporadic thefts ...

Literature

Literature

This is a ballad of the love between two people who never get the opportunity to actualize their relationship. Its theme is death both at a literal and symbolic level. Death is used as a metaphor of the demise of the stillborn romance between the soldier and Barbara Allen. The wall and the ringing death-bells epitomize the end of an unborn romance (Anon, 27).

“Ex-Basketball Player” by John Updike

This poem is describes a former basketball player who becomes a petty mechanic after the end of his career because he lacks other useful skills (Updike, 19). The theme of the poem is the vanity of success especially when ...

Comparing Langston Hughes’s & Maya Angelou's Understanding of Spirituality in Their Childhood

The narrative of Langston Hughes’s “Salvation” and Maya Angelou's “Sister Monroe” is quite similar, especially since both essays are written from a child’s point of view and are based on the authors’ previous childhood experience in their respective churches. Both Hughes and Angelou support their thesis by giving vivid descriptions of the reflections they had about their encounters at the church. Hughes and Angelou take a very similar approach towards narrating their childhood experiences and the purposes of their respective narrative essays inform their audience their understanding of their spirituality. Personally, I was very satisfied with both the ...

Many cultural movements existed in the 1920s and the earlier and later years. Harlem Renaissance was one of them. It was first known as the New Negro Movement before it was renamed to the present name by Alain Locke. This movement involved many cities. However, since Harlem was the biggest city, the name originated from it. It was about new expressions by African Americans who lived in the urban centers of Midwest and Northeast states of the United States (Bloom 21). These people were also the ones who were affected by the Great Migration of African Americans. In addition, ...

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, one of the most important themes is the coming of age of the main characters, Walter and Benethea. In the beginning of the play, they are both very flawed and selfish characters – Walter seeks to help the family in the wake of his father’s death, but his decisions often lead to disastrous consequences. Benethea, on the other hand, must learn to make her own decisions and forge ahead in life, as well as change her already established preconceptions of race and identity. Hansberry’s play, like the Langston Hughes poem “ ...

Deferment can be said to be the art of postponing something and not cancelling the same. The short story by Toni, The Lesson, generally revolves around several characters. However, the narration is the first person by Toni Cade Bambara. On the other hand, the poem, Harlem, by Langston Hughes depicts an African American who seems disillusioned by the state of national affairs and the waning of hope for a better life. In this critical analysis of the two literature works, I seek to assess the viability of how people respond when society tries bringing down people. This poses the ...

The Harlem Renaissance was a vital time for both American and International culture. With a profound impact on the entire world the works of Hughes, Cullen and Hurston are particularly poignant of the period. This essay will examine the period known as the Harlem Renaissance and the impact that all three of these artists had on the fabric of American culture. The Harlem Renaissance was a widespread movement that sought to include the whole of the African-American cultural heritage (Ogbar 250). Centered in Harlem, New York this phenomenon spanned continents and oceans to bring enlightenment to the cause of African-American society. ...

An Analysis of Langston Hughes’ poem. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Langston Hughes and “The Harlem Renaissance” are synonymous: he is hailed the greatest writer in African American Literature. His poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is his most famous poem; this short poem is loaded with figurative language and feelings. The name Langston was Langston Hughes’ mother maiden name; Langston Hughes has a rich heritage; his ancestors are white, African American, European, and Native American. He was born February 1, 1802 and died in May 22, 1967. He began writing in high school and was class poet. ...

This paper entails an anthology of three poems. These poems include Langston Hughes’s Poem As I grew older, Shakespeare’s Sonnet #4, and Emily Dickinson’s "Nature" is what we see. These three poems are crafted by poets with great experience about life and nature. The overarching message that is presented in these three poems is that life is difficult and has numerous challenges. Every opportunity that comes our ways should be exploited to its fullest. Our lives should be simple so that we can sustainably protect resources for future generations. The rationale of this anthology is ...

Great depression was a global economic crisis that faced many nations before the eruption of World War 2. It is regarded one of worst, widespread, and severe economic crisis in the American history, and during the 20th century. It originated in United States in 1929 when the stock price in Wall Street stock market crashed before it spread to the rest of the world (Stone 110). It had severe effects on the economy because many businesses had to close down, dismiss off, and retrench their employees so that to lower their operation costs. This period was characterized with high unemployment ...

Of all the literary works we’ve read so far in this class the one that stands out to me as the most impactful, one that I will think about beyond my studies in Langston Hughes, “I, Too.” Poems, like people do not immediately reveal to you what makes a person drawn to them over others, but on further reflection the reasons tend to become clear. In considering why I like this poem, I feel it is the language; the compositional style and the theme of the poem that makes me put it into that subjective category of “my favorite” ...

Langston Hughes short story “On The Road” is about a black man who travels across the country on railways. The story shares similarities of motion and travel that is found in Falkner’s short story “Barn Burning.” In “On the Road” we see a character interacting with other characters through the motion of travel. In “Barn Burning” the characters appear from a crowd, through a court system, which is endeavoring to discover who is to blame for it. Then the motion in “Barn Burning” continues to a wagon that moves across the country. In both story, and in the poems, “I, Too” and “The ...

(Name of poems), are perhaps three of the most distinguishing poems of Langston Hughes, where it becomes obvious that Langston’s everyday life and everything surrounding him have been an inspiring platform for him to write. In fact, he appears to be noticing even the slightest details of what is going on around him and be particularly drawn by nature’s beauty as well as societal issues that included racism and the rights of the African Americans of that time, among others. For that reasons his poems include intense scenes that easily carry the reader away. Since the ...

James Mercer Langston Hughes, one of the most influenced writers, thinkers and poets of Harlem Renaissance was born on February, 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. It was that time of twentieth century when America was suffering from great political crisis because of the assassination of President William McKinley. Pathways to prosperity had opened its doors at the turn of twentieth century in America, but Hughes seriously felt that he and his other African-American fellows are excluded from these opportunities. They experienced extreme discrimination in education and employment. Hughes experienced a lonely and bad childhood which had a strong influence on his poetry. ...

Introduction

The Harlem renaissance is an era in American literature that was characterized by the rising of black authors who aimed at exalting the black heritage and fight for the black man’s space and recognition in society. The Harlem renaissance rose due to social injustices and imbalances that were present during those times. Though slavery trade had officially ended, blacks were still being treated badly by their white counterparts (Nathan 29). This made the black people led by intellectuals like Langston Hughes, Marcus Garvey, Countee Cullen, Du Bois and others to revolt against such treatment through all means. Some ...

Although the two poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes derived their inspiration and influence from the need to redeem the African Americans’ consciences from the shackles of the white supremacist oppression, their approach to poetry contrasted with respect to form, style, and the use of illusions (Reid 48). The poems ‘Harlem’ and ‘Yet Do I Marvel’ as written by Hughes and Cullen demonstrate differences in form and style in ways that illustrate the manner in which the poets attempted to locate their subject matter from the multiple influences that determined the thematic and formal structures of the poems. Hughes ...

The poem, Theme for English, by the eminent poet, Langston Hughes, gives the impression that it has been penned in a stream of consciousness and the readers readily connect with the speaker who goes on to describe his meandering thoughts and questions. The speaker in this poem is a young black person of 22 years who studies in an institution. In an age riddled with racism, this individual comes across as open-minded and intrepid enough to face the status quo. He stirs the heart of the readers with his challenging question and his courage of conviction looms large all through the ...

In this context, Bop is a dialogue excerpt between simple and an unknown writer. Be-bop is defined as the opposite of Re-Bop. The present application of Be Bop in real life is referred to as the black boys play. On the contrary, Re Bop is the white boys play. Additionally, Bop was an expression of the sound produced when a police hit a Negro using his old club (Langston 76). The club produced an entertaining sound Bop, Bop. Langston was a black boy whose parents lived as slaves in a white family. Therefore, he was very conversant with slave beating using clubs. Bop ...

This paper focusses on the subject of deferred dreams and we study three poems in this regard. The poems ‘Wild Nights’ by Emily Dickinson, ‘Harlem’ and ‘Let America be America Again’ both by Langston Hughes, all highlight the pain of deferred dreams in different ways and related to different circumstances. Emily Dickinson’s poem ‘Wild Nights’ is a love poem expressing sexual passion and love. The poem falls into the genre of lyric poetry, there are three stanzas in the poem and each one has a quatrain. The poem expresses ardent affections and yearning to unite with the lover. The ...

“The Negro Speaks of River’s” to express the African Movement to America

Langston Hughes was one of the most vocal people in “The Harlem Renaissance.” “The Negro Speaks of River” is one of his most popular poems; a short poem vividly expressed with figurative language. The one line “My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” standing by itself is emphasizing the resilience of the Negro. Cruelty has developed his resistance and like the river, his soul has grown deep. The choice of the river as a symbol for the Negro is an excellent one. Whether a river starts big or small, as it makes its way to the ocean it becomes bigger; ...

Modern music is a product of evolutionary inventions in the music industry. Music has undergone a lot of transitions aimed at refining and making it better than it was before. This pepper gives an in-depth analysis of Langston Hughes and Paul influences they contributed in the musical industry.

Introduction

World over, music is one of the fastest growing industries apart from acting as a chief source of entertainment, music has been used to inform, educate and warn humanity. In fact as literary work, music is used as mirror of the society; this explains why it becomes popular with all the people o0f all ...