Walt Whitman Influence On Langston Hughes

Back on February 1, 1902, there was a boy named James Mercer Langston Hughes. He was born in Joplin, Missouri. After his birth, his parents decided to separate, and his father moved to Mexico. His grandmother, Mary, mainly took care of Langston while his mother moved around when he was younger. She eventually died in his younger teens, by then his mother had settled down in Cleveland, Ohio. Walt Whitman, and Carl Sandburg introduced him into poetry, later on they both were primary influences on Langston. He would submit literary work and poetry magazines into his school, which would ultimately reject him. Once Langston graduated from High School in 1920, he moved to Mexico with his father. As he was waiting to get to Mexico he began to write