Langston Hughes, known as a famous American poet, novelist, was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. He was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, his poems well described and commented black people’s unfair lives. When he was 20 years old, he finished and published his first poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers. It is valuable to research the amazing life and writing achievement of the famous poet Langston Hughes. As a African-American, his life was very complex. When he was a young child, his parents divorced, his father moved to Mexico and he was raised by his grandmother. 13-year-old Hughes moved to Illinois to live with his mother and her husband, after he graduated from high school, he spent the following years in Mexico with
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After he left the ship, he stayed in Pairs and continued to develop and publish his poems. In 1924, Hughes returned to the United States and worked as a busboy in a Washington, D.C. Once, while Hughes was working at a hotel restaurant, he saw the American poet Vachel Lindsay sitting there. The statement from the Softschools: “Hughes gives him some of his own poems and Lindsay puts him in contact with the Knopf Publishing Company.” (Softschools) Hughes did not let this opportunity go, his poems were paid attention and he was discovered as an talented poem. His poem The Weary Blues won the first prize on a magazine competition in 1925 and his first poetry book The Weary Blues was published by Knopf in 1926. After Hughes graduated form from Lincoln University with Bachelor of Arts in 1929, he published his first novel “Not With Laugher”, the book was so successful that we believe his writing made his life ideal. “During the 1930s, Hughes would frequently travel the United States on lecture tours, and also abroad to the Soviet Union, Japan, and Haiti.”(Biography) The Biography describes. It seemed Hughes did not just want to be a writer who stayed in the office and exchanged money with ink. Travelling made him learn about humility, and refreshed his brain over times. Besides publishing more and more works, he became a …show more content…
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was his first published poem, and he wrote it down when he saw the Mississippi River in the train to Mexico. “Through the images of the river, Hughes traces the history of the African American from Africa to America.”(Enotes) Hughes described that the river played an important role of human history and it carried people’s knowledge and soul. Hughes showed the wisdom of African-American by telling us they were a part of the history and they would not stop inheriting. “Music is a metaphor for those abstract feelings that we just can't say straight out. Blues and jazz are all about expressing those complex emotions through sound and tone.”(Shmoop) It’s the description for the music in Hughes’s another poem The Weary Blues. This poem tells a story about hearing a Negro singing the blues with complex emotions, especially the sadness. It tells us the lives of black people were tragic, full of sadness
After he left the ship, he stayed in Pairs and continued to develop and publish his poems. In 1924, Hughes returned to the United States and worked as a busboy in a Washington, D.C. Once, while Hughes was working at a hotel restaurant, he saw the American poet Vachel Lindsay sitting there. The statement from the Softschools: “Hughes gives him some of his own poems and Lindsay puts him in contact with the Knopf Publishing Company.” (Softschools) Hughes did not let this opportunity go, his poems were paid attention and he was discovered as an talented poem. His poem The Weary Blues won the first prize on a magazine competition in 1925 and his first poetry book The Weary Blues was published by Knopf in 1926. After Hughes graduated form from Lincoln University with Bachelor of Arts in 1929, he published his first novel “Not With Laugher”, the book was so successful that we believe his writing made his life ideal. “During the 1930s, Hughes would frequently travel the United States on lecture tours, and also abroad to the Soviet Union, Japan, and Haiti.”(Biography) The Biography describes. It seemed Hughes did not just want to be a writer who stayed in the office and exchanged money with ink. Travelling made him learn about humility, and refreshed his brain over times. Besides publishing more and more works, he became a …show more content…
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was his first published poem, and he wrote it down when he saw the Mississippi River in the train to Mexico. “Through the images of the river, Hughes traces the history of the African American from Africa to America.”(Enotes) Hughes described that the river played an important role of human history and it carried people’s knowledge and soul. Hughes showed the wisdom of African-American by telling us they were a part of the history and they would not stop inheriting. “Music is a metaphor for those abstract feelings that we just can't say straight out. Blues and jazz are all about expressing those complex emotions through sound and tone.”(Shmoop) It’s the description for the music in Hughes’s another poem The Weary Blues. This poem tells a story about hearing a Negro singing the blues with complex emotions, especially the sadness. It tells us the lives of black people were tragic, full of sadness