Langston Hughes wrote about the struggles of African-Americans. Through the poem Oppression, he told his view on emancipation and oppression. In the first part of the poem he says “Now dreams are not available to the dreamers, nor songs to the singers.” This first stanza presents his view on oppression, it is only natural that dreams would belong to the dreamers and the songs to the singers, this means he is saying that oppression is not natural. In the second stanza he says “But the dream will come back and the song break its jail.” This states that he believes oppression is just temporary and emancipation will be everlasting and will always prevail above all. This also proves that he finds emancipation hopeful, he doesn’t believe that it
