After WW1, blacks were still racially oppressed in America. Many African Americans relocated toward the northern urban areas to look for employment. Blacks still confronted segregation in business, in schools, and public accommodations. Despite everything, they confronted less issues towards voting rights than those in the southern states. The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, and intellectual movement that occurred in Harlem, New York. It was the resurrection of the African American culture in the 1920 's. Blacks were given their motivation to verse, music, workmanship, and design. These black authors, performers, and craftsmen, for example, Paul Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, and Aaron Douglass gave us bits of knowledge of African American culture. In the
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At the start, the poet ponders on if the writing is as easy as it seems. He ends the poem by stating that "This is my page for English B" (41). Hughes is split between two characteristics of his life. First, he is different from his classmates because he is black, but he is still an American which makes him the same as everyone else. "You are white--yet a part of me, as I am part of you. That 's American...That 's true" (31-33). Nevertheless, the poem ends with a sense of remorse. Even though the student and the instructor are alike because they are both Americans, the instructor is still "more free" than him.
In conclusion, in the poem "Theme for English B," Langston Hughes utilizes imagery, repetition, language, and tone to illustrate African American battles for equality. He touches on his feelings towards the social issues surrounding black Americans. He focuses on the differences in treatment of blacks and whites, despite them all being Human. The student uses his writing to bring attention to those differences. This poem tells a story through the eyes of a young, strong, black
At the start, the poet ponders on if the writing is as easy as it seems. He ends the poem by stating that "This is my page for English B" (41). Hughes is split between two characteristics of his life. First, he is different from his classmates because he is black, but he is still an American which makes him the same as everyone else. "You are white--yet a part of me, as I am part of you. That 's American...That 's true" (31-33). Nevertheless, the poem ends with a sense of remorse. Even though the student and the instructor are alike because they are both Americans, the instructor is still "more free" than him.
In conclusion, in the poem "Theme for English B," Langston Hughes utilizes imagery, repetition, language, and tone to illustrate African American battles for equality. He touches on his feelings towards the social issues surrounding black Americans. He focuses on the differences in treatment of blacks and whites, despite them all being Human. The student uses his writing to bring attention to those differences. This poem tells a story through the eyes of a young, strong, black