How Did Langston Hughes Influence Society

HOOK SENTENCE. Langston Hughes published many works in his lifetime, which occurred during a revolutionary time period in American history. His early writings reflect a sense of blatant militancy that seems to dim down in later works. They celebrate the blackness of the community which Hughes is writing to, and work to affirm the community of their worth. Articulating an aesthetic of Black is Beautiful, the poetic consciousness of Langston Hughes resonates with affirmation and celebration of black people.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta Georgia. Martin 's dad, Martin Luther King Sr. was a pastor in Georgia. Alberta Williams King, Martin’s mother was a former schoolteacher. He lived in a safe neighborhood but when his grandmother, a very close relative of his, died, Martin attempted suicide. He survived and stayed in his great Christian school.

Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He was born into the African culture and grew up in his home town with his mother and father. Although he grew up as a child mostly with his grandparents rather than his parents. His mother and father split up when he was such a young age, they split and his dad moved away. His mother traveled around to find a job and his dad moved to Mexico leaving Langston with his grandmother.

Using words like "fester," "sore," or, "drying up" evoke an image of the life being like an infection and festering. In his poem, A Dream Deferred, also known as Harlem, Hughes uses a single metaphor to clinch the end of the poem together. "Or does it explode?" This simple metaphor really evokes emotion and thoughts in every reader. His metaphor puts a final image to the struggle of oppression during the Civil Rights Movement and what happens to a black man or woman when a dream is deferred.

In “Theme for English B” and “I, Too,” Langston Hughes uses many literary devices and his personal experiences, as well as his use of pronouns to convey and portray tone, theme of the poems, and to create a mood for the readers. Hughes was an African American man in the 1920’s, who used his life experiences to base the poems “Theme for English B” and “I, Too,” off of. He grew up struggling for acceptance in American society, as it was dominated by white Americans in his time period, and expresses that in his poetry. Poetry gives readers a chance to interpret different circumstances in ways they wouldn't normally, as every time they read and interpret a poem the meaning can slightly alter.

Langston Hughes’s poems show how he saw his life as he was growing up. Hughes’s poems involve how The Harlem Renaissance during the 1920’s affected not only the African- American culture, but the soul as well. Most of the poems in Hughes’s collection include how black people felt towards the way white people treated them. Black people during the 60’s were trying to fight for equality and, to get to where they want to be; many often saw their dreams deferred. The connections I saw between Hughes’s work and the social climate of the time was that he often wrote what he felt and his words described a vivid picture of what he saw during the Harlem Renaissance.

The Harlem Renaissance, Segregation, and discrimination were all harsh things that were happening towards the African-American race. In this era there was a person who it affected him so much that he had to create inspirational poems about it, that person was Claude McKay. McKay had to suffer from many of harsh and racial things in his life. While writing his poems McKay uses imagery in it while he is describing America. Most of his poems were sonnets.

Realism Authors tried to portray what is real. Paul Laurence Dunbar achieved many of his goals and went through many trials to become the American poet he is today. Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African American male to rise and accomplish something great. Paul went to highschool with the Wright brothers. He wrote and edited the The Dayton Tattler newspaper with the help of the Wrights.

Langston Hughes did us a great service, he showed us a perspective that wasn 't being put in the spotlight. Mr. Hughes showed us how the american dream wasn 't the “dream” for everyone, he portrayed how african americans were not receiving the same as everyone else in america and how when everyone was happy they simply weren 't. He did an amazing job portraying a side we never saw and opened the american populous to a new view on the way society was being looked at. The poetry in Lenox Avenue Mural reflects the time period by showing the negative aspects of the american dream for african americans. It 's no secret that whenever a culture or group of people have moved to America that usually they come for and have to start from the bottom

Many African American musicians, artists, and writers blossomed as instigators for this cultural awakening, like Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and of course Langston Hughes to name a few (Hutchinson, p.1). Langston Hughes was a pioneer of contemporary African American literature. His work, Montage of a Dream Deferred, is comprised of several poems which read as one, centered mainly on the African American community in post World War II Harlem. The overarching motif is of the dream deferred, which was Hughes’ way of responding to racial oppression in America. The dream deferred refers to how there is the American dream, which

His other siblings, Emily Austin Perry, and James E.B. Austin, were younger than Stephen. Stephen was never married and was not interested in marriage. When Stephen was four years old his family moved to Potosi, Missouri. At eleven years old he was sent back east to be educated and went to Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut and then went to Transylvania

Throughout the majority of his early childhood, Capote seldom saw either of his parents because of the fact that he lived with his mother’s side of the family in Monroeville, Alabama (Famous 3). At age eleven, he reunited with his mother and his new step-father in Manhattan, New York (“Biography” 2). Soon, his step-father, Joe Capote, legally adopted him and he then alternated his name to Truman Garcia Capote (“Biography” 2). Capote was enrolled at an all-boys school in Manhattan, but quickly invested more time in his

The American Dream, an idea that sought to bring all social classes together in the achievement of a richer, fuller life. This dream, that all peoples from all occupations, no matter their skin color, gender, or religion, could achieve greatness, is one of the greatest, and yet most tainted ideas of American history. Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Emily Dickinson were all writers who understood what it was like to be marginalized in the 19th and 20th century. Their poems each reflect the time period that they were written with acute accuracy. Langston Hughes, an African-American poet during the Harlem Renaissance in 1920, understood what it was like to be marginalized by all types of people.