Harlem River Drive

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…

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 influenced by the racial tensions and the era of the Harlem Renaissance to create an impact on his poetry. In the 1930’s, African Americans faced segregation regardless of whether free or not. Since Hughes lived in the South, he saw more racism,…

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…

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 about this poem is the persona the poet choose. Instead of using himself as the…

matter (what does it depict) and content (meaning) of the artwork? It’s time to cut lose in Harlem, New York’s premier hot spot of the 1930’s,”The Savory Ballroom”. In this cool work this night club crowd is depicted doing the” Lindy Hop”, the latest dance of the era. The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Known as “the home of happy feet”, it was in…

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…

loss is the fact or process of losing something or someone (cite 1). Bishop and Hughes experienced many traumas in their childhood. Bishop had parental issues and Hughes lived during a time of inequality. The poems One Art by Elizabeth Bishop and Harlem by Langston Hughes are both concerned with the theme of loss. This essay will be discussing the lives of each poet, how each poet dealt with this theme, and what techniques each poet used. Elizabeth Bishop was born on February 8, 1911 in…

remembered as having a legacy so great there was an award named after you in your honor? This is the type of influence Langston Hughes and his writings had on people. In 1925 Hughes rose to fame with his most well-known and famous poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”, which he wrote when he was just a teen. In addition to that, Hughes had much success in his career as a poet. Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. Hughes had a rough life growing up with his parents separating…

We chose Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keys because it simply describes the Harlem Renaissance Era overall. The song emphasizes the fact that New York is the city in which dreams can come true and the Harlem Renaissance occurred in New York where creative expression was released and allowed so many different types of black artists, musicians, poets, photographers, scholars, and more to use the opportunity as an outlet to express the truth of what was going unheard of in society at the…