Nicholas Hughes

uncurl my toes in my nice shoes. The screeching lady goes up to the microphone and starts screeching the usual 'don 't-feel-bad-if-you-lost ' speech. "After much deliberation, we are excited to announce the winners for the Ron McCurdy Langston Hughes Project. Give a round of applause for Maria Belvedere, and Vanessa Attah! My breath catches in my throat. Thanks, good-luck shoes. The next week is filled with staring in the mirror and reciting endlessly. Maria and me recite our poetry to…

both writers on how they relayed their messages to their audience using the different styles of poetic writing. Hughes and Cullen may write different poems, but there is a close resemblance to the message being relayed as they usually share themes. The African American was trying to make it clear to the white people that they are right people despite having a difference of color. Hughes and Cullen focused on explaining the meaning of being African American their culture and history. In both…

As I write the above poem, I reflect on my time at my first ADTA conference, the words of a Billie Holiday song, Why Not Take All of Me, come to mind. In this song, she speaks very candid about a man taking her heart due to a breakup and decides that it is best to take her life since one has taken the better part of her. For me, in this journey of therapy and Counseling, as an African American, one of my strongest assets is that I am a black man. As it is who I am, providing a very specific…

As an author of the Harlem Renaissance, Jean Toomer wrote for an audience composed of more than his peers. With Cane (Toomer, 1923), he reached for a black audience in search of identity. Influenced by classical poets William Blake and Walt Whitman, “stream-of-consciousness” novelist James Joyce, and novelist Sherwood Anderson’s short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), Cane also addresses a white audience receptive to the minority and mixed races that culturalist Onita Estes-Hicks refers…

relationship of racial prejudice, and the Langston Hughes are celebrating African-American life strength and a powerful sense of racial injustice writing of poetry. Unquestionably, Claude McKay…

In the twentieth century, American poetry seemed to stagnate as the romantic genre appeared drained. Wolfgang Karrer explains poets avid to relay a different and powerful message to the American society could thus either rally the “renaissance” movement which attempted to reinvent new forms of poetry revitalizing older poetry styles or “remain with the domestic or local color realism” (130). Claude McKay decided to opt for the latest and will often use Black music and dance as a framework to…

James Baldwin was an African American novelist born in 1924, and passed away in 1987. He wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions, during an important time of history when these topics were finally being more widely discussed. Though he is an African-American writer, one may think Baldwin specifically wrote about racial, social, and class distinctions in solely America, but he actually travels over the world to tackle these issues. One of his works that covers those issues abroad is A…

Leopold Seder Senghor, first Senegalese president, poet and politician and one of the pioneers in the Pan-African philosophical movement known as Negritude. He got a scholarship in 1925 and went to college in Paris. During his college years, he met Aime Cesaire and Leon Damas and together they established the negritude movement. In 1955 he is elected secretary of state of the French presidency before becoming in 1960 the first Senegalese president until 1980. Senghor promotes a quest for the…

Colors and Music in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Fatima Harb 39907 Lebanese University/ Master 1 Comparative literature Abstract A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by American playwright Tennessee Williams in 1947. In his play, Williams shed the light on the differences between classes in that age, through certain symbols, such as colors and music. The colors chosen by…

This essay will examine the use of poetry in expressing a poet’s ideology, how this is demonstrated in their work and the poet’s methods of communicating their world views to a reader. The work of Langston Hughes reflected the lives of the African Americans around him during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, and also the history that they all shared in Africa. The Harlem Renaissance was a time of revival for traditional African culture and a push for racial equality across in the community of…