Langston Hughes

In this poem, Hughes says that America, which was supposed to stand for democracy and equality, no longer embodies such...

‘In Time of Silver Rain’ was included in the 1947 collection of Langston Hughes’s poetry entitled Fields of Wonder. The...

‘In Time of Silver Rain’ is arguably one of the simplest poems ever written by Langston Hughes. Hughes (1902-1967) is...

‘I Dream a World’ is a typical Langston Hughes poem, with its mixed tone of hope and skepticism. This, however,...

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was an African-American poet writing about the social situation of the African-American community living in cities and...

The first stanza of Hughes’s ‘Dream Variations’ can be divided into two units of four lines each, and an additional...

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is an African-American poet writing between the 1920s and the 1960s. This entire period was one of...

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) is an African-American poet, who wrote about the struggles of the people of his own community living...

Langston Hughes was greatly influenced by the theory of ‘double-consciousness’ proposed by W. E. B. DuBois, the first African-American to...

‘Daybreak in Alabama’ was first published in 1940 in a journal called Unquote that was brought out of Yellow Springs,...