Night Funeral In Harlem Analysis

The two writers came from Harlem when there was the rise of the black voices who were against the discrimination of the African American. Their writings were mainly based on political and social affairs that were affecting the black people. However, the differences were evident in both writers on how they relayed their messages to their audience using the different styles of poetic writing.
Hughes and Cullen may write different poems, but there is a close resemblance to the message being relayed as they usually share themes. The African American was trying to make it clear to the white people that they are right people despite having a difference of color. Hughes and Cullen focused on explaining the meaning of being African American their culture and history. In both writers writing it is evident that the black people were all trying to prove to everyone that they are human and deserve to live harmoniously with other human beings.
During the era of their writing, there was a lot of racial …show more content…
He chooses to employ the blues in his writing perhaps to make his message fascinating to the targeted audience and the readers. Night Funeral in Harlem depicts the use of blues in his works. Several rhetorical questions are used in the poem perhaps to make it more interesting for the audience to understand the message being conveyed by the poet. The questions in the poem include: "where did they get Them Two fine cars? The reader can clearly understand where the cars arrived from without the need for any further explanation. The reader is also able to understand the type of family that is being discussed in the funeral without having to relate or enquires from the family members. The class of the family turns out to be ironical as it is not expected that any black family can own or have such cars. Hughes uses irony perhaps to condemn the killing of a teenage black boy maybe to affirm his death was not a natural