American poets

Gwendolyn Brooks. A powerful African American women who faced racial discrimination all her life became one of the greatest poets to live with just a pencil and notebook. She stayed true to herself and her identity as she changed the America one poem at a time. David and Keziah Brooks had their first born child, Gwendolyn Brooks, on July 7, 1917, She was born when racism and oppression was at its highest. Shortly after Gwendolyns birth, they relocated to Chicago Illinois, taking part in the…

“Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes and the carving Free by Emma Marie Cadwalader-Guild, two different forms of art, both manage to capture the same messages. They were made in different eras, yet showcase the discriminations faced by African Americans. Both Hughes and the slave in the carving overcame an innumerable amount of challenges, their worlds consumed with false freedom. “English B” by Langston Hughes and Free by Cadwalader-Guild share countless commonalities; in both the poem…

Despite Holmes’ recent buzz and achievements doubt still loomed over the New England poet and even from his own fanbase on his capability to lull the fears rising in America. “The problem was his appearance” as well as his demeanor, standing five foot four a poet with a lighthearted manner and humor Holmes found it rather “difficult to instill confidence” into his ‘patients’ (Critical Survey of Poetry 1789). America on her approach to her war-torn glory began to doff her ties to romanticism in…

discrimination in which African Americans endure, he later settled in Mexico. Hughes was mainly raised by his grandmother, Mary Patterson Langston until she passed away in his early teen years. He then was raised by family friends for a short period of time, then eventually moved home with his mother Caroline in Lincoln, Illinois. Caroline relocated to various states in attempt to finding better employment to provide for her family. While in high school, Hughes was introduced to many poets…

how far we have come it still exists today. Race rebellion and African American anger is a thing, and it is very warranted. It has been said that hip hop grew on and has actively addressed the role of anger and violence. Misinterpreting the presence of violence and drugs in hip hop can be considered as dismissing the Black Arts Movement and the connections between artistic expression and the frustration that African Americans face in America, as well as dismissing their stories. A quote from…

heart of the people during that time period within the segregation, such as lines like “I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes,”. As an American now, my experiences vastly differ, just as Hughes' experiences vastly differ from those of Whitman due to the time gap between the two poets. America now is free of…

Hughes’ “Poems,” Fiction,” and “Drama” Langston Hughes is the poet laureate of African-American experience. He is a popular writer of the Harlem Renaissance, and the one to give hopeful expression to the aspirations of the oppressed, even as he decried racism and injustice. In addition to poetry, he published fiction, drama, which also explained the challenges of the African-Americans. He also explained how the dreams of the black Americans were shattered using different tones, symbols, and…

musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars” (Wormser R., 2002). Hurston has been one of the influential figure and a leader the Harlem Renaissance, apart from protecting the rights of African American from the injustice that was acceptable during that period called racism. Although she fought for the people of her race, Hurston gained fame from her literary works. She was passionate about art, in one of her letter to Dr.…

to writers, black poets, dramatists, musicians, and artists who appeared in the wake of the Black Power movement. The movement was established by Amiri Baraka in 1963, who opened a Black Arts Repertory theater in Harlem. The movement was also provoked by the assassination of Malcolm X. The movement inspired black people to initiate magazines, journals, art institutions, and publishing houses. The black arts movement saw artistic manufacture as the key to re-evaluate black Americans recognition…

or another. To be more specific, the poems that I really thought depicted freedom are “Dream variations” and “I too” by Langston Hughes. In addition to those is the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem “Dream Variations” written by the poet Langston Hughes shows many examples of the desire for freedom. For instance, this poem mainly is focused on having racial pride and reaching the same freedom as everyone else. “To fling my arms wide / In some place of the sun, / To whirl and to…