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2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

Langston Hughes' African American Poetry

In six pages this paper examines Langston Hughes' African American poetry and the common theme that is interwoven in poems like 'H...

Poetic Reality in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes

In seven pages this paper discusses the poems 'We Real Cool, The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel' by Gwendolyn Brooks and...

Langston Hughes' Plays

In six pages this paper examines how the African American experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' plays Mulatto and Don't ...

'Coloredness' in the Poem Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

In five pages a poetic explication of Theme for English B examines how 'coloredness' is represented by poet Langston Hughes. Two ...

Biography of Langston Hughes

In eleven pages the 'explosions' in the life of Langston Hughes are explored in this insightful biography of the poet and novelist...

Black Poetry and Literature and the Blues

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses the relationship between black poetry and literature with jazz and blues music with...

African American Poetic Modernism

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

'On the Road' by Langston Hughes

In one page the character of Sergeant featured in 'On the Road,' a short story by Langston Hughes, is analyzed. There is no bibli...

Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

Social Reform According to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Other Writers

reform, but a constant, measured effort. Despite Emersons optimism, there is a lot of truth to the idea that Americans now accept...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Summary and Tonal Analysis of 'Salvation' by Langston Hughes

oppression could flourish" (Langston Hughes 1902) - has a hard time realizing how religion serves any other purpose than to latch ...

'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain' by Langston Hughes

young man meant he wanted to be a white poet. The point is that this young mans words brought this issue to mind for Hughes, and t...

Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes

expecting insurance money and all the characters have their hopes and dreams associated with it. One character who drives much of ...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

Black Writers

industrial training (Washington). He believes that if black men produce something white men want, "instead of all the dependence b...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

Elitist Poetry of Langston Hughes

but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...

Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, American Identity and Education

the preamble to the Constitution even faster than Bailey" (Angelou). In essence, we see Margaret excited and bearing no feelin...

Simply Heavenly by Langston Hughes

indicative of Hughes stance toward stereotype portrayal is where Mamie is discussing the virtues of watermelons with Melon. An unn...

Various Poets Appealing to the Ear

work. Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he ...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

Harlem Renaissance Artists and the Influence Exerted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...

Whitman and Hughes’ Poetry

Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...

DEATH POEMS AND "SONG OF A DARK GIRL"

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

Langston Hughes The Trumpet Player

golden tones he creates" (Davis 276). This "new Harlem" apparently changes more dramatically than we think; Schatt notes that the ...

Black Writers Speak Out

the best basketball players at Fisk sank his first ball right here at Lafayette County Training School" (Angelou 870). Angelou is ...