Glenn Hughes

The 1920’s was a time of hope, ambition, determination, and justice. It was an era where people felt they had a voice, and a purpose, which they used to develop the time as “the roaring 1920’s.” Many major opportunities were welcomed to many people, including those involved in the Great Migration from 1910, to the 1970’s. Many citizens of color were affected by monstrous prejudice, and abuse, from the white supremacy in the southern states, which influenced sanguine, black citizens to migrate to…

Unlike Hughes’ free and straightforward poetic form, Claude McKay’s writing style comes across as restricted and stiff. In his poems, “If We Must Die” and “The White City,” McKay almost perfectly adheres to the form of a Shakespearean sonnet. His need to mimic the meter and rhyme scheme of this sonnet bounds him and his poetry to a pre-set paradigm, emphasizing the fact that he, and other African Americans felt as though they were being confined by the limitations and restrictions imposed on…

Does B. B. King sound familiar? Well most know him as the “King of Blues”, born in Itta Bena, Mississippi on September 16th, 1925. As a child growing up his parents had divorced and he lived with him mom up until nine then his mom passed away. He then moved in with his dad Albert King. B. B. King landed a job working at a cotton plantation in Indianola. On the job is where he was first introduced to the early sounds of blues. At that time King also sang gospel music in a church and even…

In the poem by, Langston Hughes, “Dream Variations” Hughes applies the technique of imagery heavily. None of the lines of the excerpt are “extra” or do not serve a purpose to the theme of the poem. The overall theme of the poem has to do with the race issues of the times because of his mentions of “the white day” and “Night comes on gently- dark like me”. His words are not concreate at all they do give off a poetic tone to them. The mood he wrote them with is one of trying to make the reader…

“ There’s never been equality for me,/ Nor freedom in this ‘homeland for the free. ’” (Let America Be America again, Langston Hughes). One of the founding. fathers of African American poetry Langston Hughes, began his poetic career from a very young age. Being a free African American Hughes had the exposure to gather publicity from his art. Langston grew up in the segregated city of Joplin Missouri, and the sight of African Americans lack of equality angered him. Langston Hughes’s poetry was…

Langston Hughes was a famous African-American literary figure born in 1902. Although Hughes was primarily recognized by his many poems, he also had different types of writings in his literary career that portrayed him as a novelist, playwright, and children’s books author. Hughes was a strong and inspiring person who had faced obstacles throughout his lifetime; many of which ended in saddening disappointments. One major shift in his point of view that impacted his life was the dreadful…

To me, Langston Hughes is a fearless poet, who is not afraid to speak his mind. Growing up during a time where racial discrimination was prevalent, Hughes, who was a victim of racial injustice, clearly has strong feelings about this topic. This strong emotion is throughly convey throughout most of his poem. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” is one of those poems, but what makes it stand out is the amount of angry and passion the poet convey throughout this poem. One thing that is quite interesting…

Thank you M’am The book “Thank you M’am” by Langston Hughes. I think that Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones took Roger home because she related to him and what he did. She probably did that because she thought that when she was young she would have wished someone to teach her to do things the right way, so she wanted to be that someone for the troubled kid Roger, also because she wanted to teach him a lesson by making him feel guilty about trying to steal the purse so that he would never do…

In Langston Hughes’ poem, “I, Too” the narrator uses literary devices such as diction and tone to fully depict the narrator’s refined relationship with America. The poem is presumably narrated by a minority as the narrator illustrates himself as “the darker brother” (Hughes, line 2) and being oppressed when he is “[sent] to eat in the kitchen” (Hughes, line 3) By using a minority in the poem, Hughes is able to extend the breadth of the applicability of America’s well acknowledged attributes of…

In the short story Thank You, Ma’am by Langston Hughes, a boy named Roger tries to steal a purse belonging to a woman named Mrs. Jones in order to buy a pair of blue suede shoes. Mrs. Jones catches Roger, drags him back to her home where she lets him wash up and she feeds him. Mrs. Jones does this to teach Roger a lesson. The lesson is to not look for acceptance from others, but to find it in oneself. Roger is a boy who is most likely homeless and is trying to earn money in some way. When he…