Vachel Lindsay

In 1925, while working as a busboy in a Washington, D.C. hotel restaurant when he met a renowned American poet Vachel Lindsay. Hughes presented some of his poems to Lindsay, who was so impressed he used his connections to promote Hughes’s poetry which ultimately allowed it to be experienced by a wider audience. In 1925, Hughes’s poem “The Weary Blues” won first place in the Opportunity magazine…

“The Poet Laureate of Black America” (Waldron), he once was a lonely outsider and became an American poet icon. That is James Mercer Langston Hughes pioneers of the literary art form called jazz poetry. Langston Hughes wrote for not just the African-American people, but for everyone who were, sat aside from the American dream. After analyzing a few of Hughes poems, his themes for expressing his personal life and struggles as an African-American people. The continuing 1920’s conflict for…

James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents, James Hughes and Carrie Langston soon separated after his birth. His father moved to Mexico and his mother moved around during his youth. Hughes was raised primarily by his grandmother, Mary, until she died in his teens. Hughes then went to live with his mother and they moved to several cities, but eventually were settled in Cleveland, Ohio. While in Cleveland, Hughes began to write poetry and was also…

Music plays a very important role in everyone’s life. It is important because people everywhere can use it to express themselves. Music gives people the chance to be who they want to be. Music speaks louder than words and can express emotions, good or bad. It is also important because it allows people to escape reality and enter their own little worlds when they feel alone. Music is like a friend that is always there when it feels like no one else is. And it can get you through hard times but,…

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of great poetic, narrative, and artistic revolution and enlightenment in early twentieth century New York. One of the more influential and fantastic writers of that period was James Mercer Langston Hughes, commonly known just as Langston Hughes. Hughes was an extremely talented writer, for he published novels, poems, biographies, plays, television shows, operas, and proses. Despite his abundance of skills, poetry was arguably Hughes’s most precious forte.…

of the renaissance. a great example of one of the one of the great musicians in the Renaissance is Langston Hughes he was one greatest jazz poets ever he go his start when he was working as a busboy at a restaurant and met a famous poet named Vachel Lindsay. He showed her some of his poems which impressed her, then she used her connections to promote it, and he won an award in a magazine literary competition (Famous Harlem Renaissance People." Bio.com, Laban Carrick. book, .Poets.org.…

where he continued to write literary works (Langston Hughes Biography). He wrote stories and poetry on a typewriter in his appartment (Meet the Writer 136). While working as a busboy in D.C., he met Vachel Lindsay, an American poet, where he showed her one of his poems (Langston Hughes Biography). She later brought his poem to a wider audience (Langston Hughes Biography). The poem, “The Weary Blues”, was a success and it won first prize in the “Oppurtunity”…

Martin Luther King believed “we may have all come on different ships, but we 're in the same boat now.” This belief of equality inspires millions of people everyday, but before King there was Langston Hughes. Hughes, a poet during the 1920’s, living around the world and supporting African-Americans particularly for equality in America. Hughes is a prolific equality activist, implementing his anger, depression, culture, and oppression in his poems. Langston Hughes’s family, specifically his…