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Critical Analysis of Mother to Son: This poem is a symbol of the struggle which the Negro Race had to endure throughout their time in America. From being taken from their native homes in Africa to the oppressive shallow fields of America, the race of black people have struggled and are still struggling till the date.… Continue reading Critical Analysis of Mother to Son by Langston Hughes: 2022
About the Poet: James Mercer Langston Hughes (1902- 1967) commonly known as Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was born in Joplin, Missouri. He was of African-American origin, his mother, Caroline Mercer Langston, was a school teacher and his father, James Nathaniel Hughes. He was a pioneer of the,… Continue reading Mother to Son by Langston Hughes as an Autobiographical Poem: 2022
Critical Analysis of Oppression: Hughes is well aware of how the African American community was treated by the white majority population at the beginning of the 20th century, for he lived at the heart of the community in Harlem. This poem is thus Hughes’s way of telling his fellow African Americans not to lose hope,… Continue reading Analysis, Central Idea and Theme of Oppression: 2022
About the poet: James Mercer Langston Hughes (popularly known as Langston Hughes) was an African American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the inventors of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry. Hughes is best known as a leading proponent of the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri, on… Continue reading Summary of Oppression by Langston Hughes: 2022
About Langston Hughes: James Mercer Langston Hughes was born in the year 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He went on to become a poet, social activist, novelist and playwright. He started writing short stories and poems while in high school. He is known for ‘jazz poetry’ and is considered one of its earliest innovators. He is… Continue reading Summary and Analysis of The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes: 2022
The internal conflict of a person born to black-white parents is portrayed through the lines of the poem. It has a dominant trait of autobiographical elements from Hughes’ life. The racial tensions between the black and white communities in the 1920s and the ethnic conflict in the lives of African-American individuals form the backdrop of… Continue reading Cross: Summary and Analysis: 2022
Langston Hughes- One of the major literary figures emerging during the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was an American poet born on February 1, 1902. Almost all of Hughes’s works are reflective of the true culture of black people, their sufferings, achievements, their fondness for all aspects of life including music, food, language etc. The Weary Blues- “The… Continue reading The Weary Blues Summary and Analysis by Langston Hughes: 2022
‘Cultural Exchange’ is a satirical poem by the African-American poet Langston Hughes, one of the major figures of the Harlem Renaissance. The poem consists of thirteen stanzas of varying length. The first stanza consists of nine lines. In this stanza, Hughes describes how the ghettos are in which African-Americans were forced to live by their… Continue reading Cultural Exchange Summary by Langston Hughes
This poem analysis focuses on the poem ‘Cultural Exchange’ by Langston Hughes, and is divided into three parts – context, rhyme scheme and rhetorical devices, and the two forms of cultural exchange. Context: This part of the poem analysis focuses on the context in which ‘Cultural Exchange’ was published. It was published as the first… Continue reading Cultural Exchange Analysis by Langston Hughes
This poem summary focuses on the poem ‘Ardella’ by the African-American poet Langston Hughes. Hughes was one of the main figures behind the Harlem Renaissance. As the name suggests (‘Harlem’ being a predominantly African-American neighbourhood of New York City), this was a movement for self-assertion of the African-Americans so that mainstream American society would sit… Continue reading Ardella Summary by Langston Hughes
