Connection between Langston Hughes’ “Poems,” Fiction,” and “Drama”
Langston Hughes is the poet laureate of African-American experience. He is a popular writer of the Harlem Renaissance, and the one to give hopeful expression to the aspirations of the oppressed, even as he decried racism and injustice. In addition to poetry, he published fiction, drama, which also explained the challenges of the African-Americans. He also explained how the dreams of the black Americans were shattered using different tones, symbols, and themes in his poems.
The tone of any work of literature is essentially the speaker's attitude toward the subject or the audience. The reader can also feel the tone as a mood. The writer controls the tone through their diction or word choice and the phrasing, the line breaks, and the imagery they employ. The tone of a poem can remain consistent throughout, or it can shift as the piece progresses. Langston Hughes used different tones in his poems to show the life that most African-Americans were living. In particular, he used the tones of frustration in his poem “Harlem” to show the life and challenges the black Americans were going through (Roessel and Arnold 35). Reflection was also …show more content…
Langston used symbolic imagery in his poems to convey the meaning of his poems to the readers. Hughes also used metaphorical statements to suggest to the reader what the African-American soul has experienced as seen in his poem “the Negro speaks of rivers”. (Hughes 41). On the other hand, Hughes used symbols in his short stories to bring out the challenges and sufferings that Africans-Americans faced during his time (Hughes 52). He also wrote dramas, which clearly indicated the hardships of the black Americans. The production of the dramas was to give people a clear understanding of the hardships of the African-Americans, including those who were highly
Langston Hughes is the poet laureate of African-American experience. He is a popular writer of the Harlem Renaissance, and the one to give hopeful expression to the aspirations of the oppressed, even as he decried racism and injustice. In addition to poetry, he published fiction, drama, which also explained the challenges of the African-Americans. He also explained how the dreams of the black Americans were shattered using different tones, symbols, and themes in his poems.
The tone of any work of literature is essentially the speaker's attitude toward the subject or the audience. The reader can also feel the tone as a mood. The writer controls the tone through their diction or word choice and the phrasing, the line breaks, and the imagery they employ. The tone of a poem can remain consistent throughout, or it can shift as the piece progresses. Langston Hughes used different tones in his poems to show the life that most African-Americans were living. In particular, he used the tones of frustration in his poem “Harlem” to show the life and challenges the black Americans were going through (Roessel and Arnold 35). Reflection was also …show more content…
Langston used symbolic imagery in his poems to convey the meaning of his poems to the readers. Hughes also used metaphorical statements to suggest to the reader what the African-American soul has experienced as seen in his poem “the Negro speaks of rivers”. (Hughes 41). On the other hand, Hughes used symbols in his short stories to bring out the challenges and sufferings that Africans-Americans faced during his time (Hughes 52). He also wrote dramas, which clearly indicated the hardships of the black Americans. The production of the dramas was to give people a clear understanding of the hardships of the African-Americans, including those who were highly