Essays on Langston Hughes

At the end of the 19th century, a time has emerged in which poets provided a historical and cultural overview of America via poetry while assessing the importance and meaning of them. American poets of the 20th century like Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickson...

Considered one of the most important figures of the Harlem Renaissance in New York, James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, and novelist whose work is a beautiful representative of jazz poetry. He was born in 1902 and died in 1967. His...

The Harlem Renaissance Era, was a very big era for the United States and the Civil Rights Movement. From the likes of Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong and many other names that were a part of the movement, one specific poet stood out from all of...

Both poems “Mother to Son” and “Dreams” share a common theme but Langston Hughes uses different literary devices to express the theme of never giving up. In “Mother to Son,” the author uses a first person point of view to explain someone’s struggles in life....

“I am black/ I lie down in the shadow”. Langston Hughes, author of “As I Grew Older,” was African American and was discriminated against until the day he died. In the line above from “As I Grew Older,” he emphasizes the shadow which is preventing...

I too sing America: Themes off Family and Patriotism In Langston Hughes short yet notable poem “I, Too, sing America”, we are taken back to the dreadful period of segregation. In this poem, Langston Hughes is reclaiming rights taken away from him and other African...

Hughes and Cullen have differences that are very clear. They both have stylistic differences, Hughes writes in rhythm while Cullen writes in rhyme. Although they both write in different styles, they both have the same theme. Hughes and Cullen wrote their works during the Harlem...

This paper summarizes two literary works of Langston Hughes and Alexander Pushkin. In both narrations, the characters at some point find it hard to accept what they pass through and how others treated them. That desire to fight for one’s rights is a burning issue...

Hughes employs the use of dramatic imagery to give the River Humber an appearance of an alive entity, ‘melting eastwards…..a loaded single vain’. The use of the word ‘vein’ is ambiguous as it could suggest a removal of sin after death; ‘draining away’. However, veins...