Glenn Hughes

Lawrence’s Migration of Art Born on September 7th, 1917, Jacob Lawrence was born to be great. His early years of his life were spent moving around, until he and his family settled in Harlem. During his teenage years, he had spent time working on his art, and got his best ideas right in Harlem, where he was grasping visuals and inspiration. As a teenager, he was in different art programs where his art style was already set, and his mentors noticed this early on. Mattern implies that, “Charles…

Sylvia Plath is a well renowned poet from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Plath is well known for her controversial and pessimistic poems though some of her best pieces are joyous texts. Throughout each of these texts Plath has developed a specific key idea. It is believed that Plath’s most important ideas that she develops throughout any of her texts are, nature being a brutal relentless force, the oppression of women and finally, the extreme feelings of joy and love that children bring to…

from “Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca and “Harlem” by Langston Hughes are very similar in the sense they are both about dreams, however, they differ when it comes to their approach to dreams. These two poems have many differences, such as, in the excerpt from “Life is a Dream” by Pedro Calderón de la Barca states, indubitably, that life is a dream. He says you dream your whole life. However, Langston Hughes asks “What happens to a dream deferred?” This indicates that dreams get…

English B” by Langston Hughes “Theme for English B,” by Langston Hughes, is a short poem that is centered on a young colored student whose instructor has asked him to write an essay about himself with the demand that it must be “true.” The speaker’s tone of voice throughout the poem shows the reader the struggle that a colored person has with identifying themselves on where they stand in a class room with a white instructor. With the author’s specific use of imagery and tone, Hughes builds up…

Sylvia Plath is a novelist and a short story writer but she is most known for her poems. Some of her most famous poems are “Daddy”, “Morning Song”, and “The Applicant”. The poem “The Applicant” is about someone trying to sell a women to a man by making her seem as if she can do anything for him and it’s the man’s last resort. This poem can be looked at from a biographical, feminist, formalist, or psychoanalytic lens. Through a biographical lens you can see that “The Applicant” shows how Sylvia…

Billy Collins was an American writer whose phenomenally open verse—portrayed by plain dialect, delicate silliness, and a ready thankfulness for the everyday—made him a standout amongst the most well-known artists in the United States. Collins grew up predominantly in Queens, New York. He composed his first lyric at age 12 and later joined his secondary school artistic magazine. In 1963 Collins got a B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, and he went ahead to procure…

Growing up, Jean Toomer moved from all white to all black neighborhoods and shifted around all white and all black segregated schools. This gave Toomer a unique view of the world, fueling his ideas on racial equality. Toomer utilized his poetry as a way to express his feeling of racial equality and, became one of the most influential writers of the harlem renaissance. Jean collaborated with great reformers such as Alaine Locke, W.E.B. duBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Nella Larsen,…

Langston Mercer Hughes, poet, novelist, playwright, and columnist ( ), was born to James Hughes and Carrie Langston on February 1, 1902 in Joplin Missouri. Not long after the birth of Langston, James Hughes left his family and moved to Mexico. Carrie moved around a lot during his childhood, so Hughes was raised essentially by his maternal grandmother, Mary, in Lawrence, Kansas until she passed on when he was an adolescent. From then on, he lived with his mom. She kept moving, however, she…

Considered one of the most influential artist during the Harlem Renaissance, Lois Mailou Jones’ early introduction to her inspirations led a path to a promising career. The impact that African culture had on her inspired her to depict African-American subjects in her own artwork. However, in the process she faced many obstacles. Despite this, Jones continues to be viewed as the link between the greatest that is the Harlem Renaissance, and contemporary expression. Born in Boston, Massachusetts on…

the right to call himself a true citizen of America- a country that's all about equality and freedom. Langston Hughes was often known as the the prominent poet of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the period of cultural eruption. This event took place in New York City during the 1920s, giving rise to popular jazz, African-American art, literature, and poetry. As an African-American, Hughes refused to obtain the racism that was introduced in the United States, and emphasized by his active…