Frieda Hughes

Lorraine Hansberry was inspired to write the play “A Raisin in the Sun” not only because of her own real life experience, but also because of a poem she read by Langston Hughes. This play was first presented in 1959 and shows many of the problems and issues that divided American society. During this time period, social issues of African Americans were the main factor, and throughout this play it is very obvious that the Youngers’ are facing many of them. Racism is certainly the biggest social…

Comparative Essay- Still I Rise and Telephone Conversation Maya Angelou and Wole Soyinka’s poems have often been described as a powerful and serious agent to social change. Their themes are primarily concerned with the promotion of human rights and African politics. At the same time, poems as "Telephone Conversation" and “Still I Rise” reveal a lyrical understanding of the same theme balanced with humour and a deeply felt concern for the human condition. Maya Angelo published her poem in 1978…

Lyric poetry presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet as opposed to poetry that tells a story or presents a witty observation. Indeed, "We Wear the Mask" is a lyric poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar that explores how in the late nineteenth century, African Americans could not publicly reveal their true feelings about whites' maltreatment without the risk of dangerous retaliation. Through paradox, metaphor, and apostrophe, the speaker ponders how oppressed black Americans are forced to hide…

Arriving to school at 7 in the morning is hard enough, but doing so on a Saturday for detention, is even tougher! Yet five students, from different walks of life do just this, in one of the most iconic movie of the ‘80s. Directed by John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, is a film that follows the events of five teenagers serving their time -and shenanigans- in detention, while lifelong friendships are made by the simple act of understanding and relation. In the opening of the movie, the teenagers…

A La Juventud Filipina Jose Rizal wrote the poem a la juventud Filipina in 1879 when he was but a student in the University of Santo Tomas, and as the title suggests, was written for the Filipino youth. The first prize was conferred upon Rizal for this composition, at a competition held by the Liceo Artistico Literario de Manila. Rizal’s teenage years were the years when his nationalism and patriotism were being fostered more and more, according to Fr.…

Langston Hughes in both poems are trying to show the reader that they are fixing there life. In the poem “One Way Ticket”, he is picking up his life and moving. He doesn't like the way he is living. He thinks that it is really bad and not worth him living a terrible…

The writers in the unit “America Speaks” all claim a specific version of what it means to be an American. In “Kira-Kira,” by Cynthia Kadohata and in “I Hear America Singing,” by Walt Whitman, the writers both explain what they think it means to be an American. They way that these writers explain what this can be both compared and contrasted. To Cynthia Kadohata, being an American means that you should love and appreciate your country. You should be happy that you are able to live in America. To…

Do you truly know what a renaissance is? A renaissance basically means a rebirth, or renewal of something The Harlem renaissance has been the rebirth of not only Harlem, but black culture as a whole. After world war two, blacks, along with many other races migrated to the states. Immigrants spread all over America. The most common place for blacks happened to be Harlem. At the time it was known as the new Negro movement. There was not exactly a high demand for African Americans to just come find…

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a play by August Wilson, deeply analyzes the works of the African-American music artists the the Jazz Age. The play delves into the oppression of the artist and the exploitation of their music. Through the youthful and self-assured trumpet player, Levee, the story of his personal failings and inevitable destruction of his aspirations is told. The focus of Wilson’s allegory is the purchase of Levee’s new shoes, and how his new shoes are symbolic of the changing of the…

forth talented black people and also to create positivity and creativity in a time of great turmoil. Who was it? There were many people who were part of the Harlem renaissance, however, some who are more known include Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, W.E.B DuBois, Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Aaron Douglas, and James Weldon Johnson. Where did it take place?…