Langston Hughes Poetry Analysis

Poetry is a type of art of composition, written or spoken, that conveys a message. Poetry has existed since anyone can imagine. Poetry has been a way to express our emotions without really expressing them to others face to face. It has been a way of comfort to some who can use it as their own tool. A majority, no offense, don’t really write poetry. Actually, no one really considers going to poetry to express a message. There are a small percentage of people who actually use poetry for their own benefit such as Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes is a very popular poet who wrote 103 poems. He was able to write poetry based on his life experiences and chose to write about some of the issues he addressed because of how he perceived the world. Langston Hughes was born in 1920 in Joplin, Missouri. He grew up in Lawrence, …show more content…
He wanted to be the voice, as Onwuchekwa Jemie comments, “…their thoughts and habits and dreams, their struggle for political freedom and economic well-being. He wanted to do this suing their own forms of expression…” Hughes’s poetry such as The Negro Speaks of Rivers, Saturday Night, Harlem (A Dream Deferred), and Theme for English B were written from Hughes’s experiences. He conveyed the message of the common black folk through all of the poems he wrote such as the ones listed. From the beginning of his life, Hughes has developed an attitude towards how he perceives the world. He has faced the difficulties and hardships of family, race, color, status, and socialism. Hughes deceived that he wanted to convey a message that some blacks couldn’t covey. He wanted the public to realize who was the black community and the way they experienced life. The poems he wrote such as Saturday Night and Harlem celebrate the community of the blacks. He was the voice of African Americans during an era where someone needed to be a