Langston Hughes Influence On Poetry
Neel Patel
English 10
Mrs. Susan Hickman
15 October 2014
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes has been a great influence to many people who are in the field of poetry. He has accomplished so many things that can show people how you can achieve your goal whether you are rich or not. He also migrated a lot like the other African-Americans. He also used the blues in his poems. Langston Hughes is a poet of the Harlem Renaissance who expressed his views about African-Americans through poetry.
He was born on February 1 1902 in Joplin Missouri. His parents separated soon after he was born. His father moved to Mexico and his mom stayed there. He spent his early life with his grandmother . He loved his grandmother so much because she raised him. When he was a teen, his grandmother died that left him without the loved person who took care of him. After her death, he moved back with his mother and they started migrating from one place to another until they finally found a way of living in Cleveland, Ohio. …show more content…
He started writing poems and was so good that he helped with the school literary magazine. He graduated high school in 1920 with his poetry skills. For the next year, he went to Mexico to live with his dad and came back after that. He enrolled to Columbia University and got in but after a year , he dropped out. Once he dropped out, he did many different jobs in New York. The following year, he signed up as a steward and traveled to Africa and Spain. He also lived in Paris for a while and continued his
English 10
Mrs. Susan Hickman
15 October 2014
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes has been a great influence to many people who are in the field of poetry. He has accomplished so many things that can show people how you can achieve your goal whether you are rich or not. He also migrated a lot like the other African-Americans. He also used the blues in his poems. Langston Hughes is a poet of the Harlem Renaissance who expressed his views about African-Americans through poetry.
He was born on February 1 1902 in Joplin Missouri. His parents separated soon after he was born. His father moved to Mexico and his mom stayed there. He spent his early life with his grandmother . He loved his grandmother so much because she raised him. When he was a teen, his grandmother died that left him without the loved person who took care of him. After her death, he moved back with his mother and they started migrating from one place to another until they finally found a way of living in Cleveland, Ohio. …show more content…
He started writing poems and was so good that he helped with the school literary magazine. He graduated high school in 1920 with his poetry skills. For the next year, he went to Mexico to live with his dad and came back after that. He enrolled to Columbia University and got in but after a year , he dropped out. Once he dropped out, he did many different jobs in New York. The following year, he signed up as a steward and traveled to Africa and Spain. He also lived in Paris for a while and continued his