Langston Hughes: Revolutionized Poetry And America
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, revolutionized poetry and America by writing poems about African Americans because he believed that they were beautiful human beings.
Who is Langston Hughes? Langston Hughes is a poet that made poems about the African American literature. He was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. For much of Hughes’s childhood, he lived with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. Hughes relied on his books and grandmother’s stories for entertainment. The many evenings Hughes has spent with his grandmother, he sat on her lap while she told him stories about people that wanted to free Negroes. “Following his high school graduation, he spent a painful year with his father in Mexico, where they soon clashed on a major issue: ‘My father hated Negroes. I think he hated himself, too, for being a Negro’” (Roessel and Rampersad 4). …show more content…
Hughes uses a type of jazz and Black folk rhythm in his pieces, while ignoring the classical form of poetry. He wrote many literary genres including poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. “Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.”(“Langston Hughes”). Langston Hughes believed that there should be equality between all ethnicities. He supported racial pride during the 1920s through his work of poems, plays, novels, and short stories. Hughes only talked about the African American race, because he believes that blacks and whites should live in peace with equal rights for everyone. Langston Hughes was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s (“Langston
Langston Hughes, revolutionized poetry and America by writing poems about African Americans because he believed that they were beautiful human beings.
Who is Langston Hughes? Langston Hughes is a poet that made poems about the African American literature. He was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. For much of Hughes’s childhood, he lived with his grandmother in Lawrence, Kansas. Hughes relied on his books and grandmother’s stories for entertainment. The many evenings Hughes has spent with his grandmother, he sat on her lap while she told him stories about people that wanted to free Negroes. “Following his high school graduation, he spent a painful year with his father in Mexico, where they soon clashed on a major issue: ‘My father hated Negroes. I think he hated himself, too, for being a Negro’” (Roessel and Rampersad 4). …show more content…
Hughes uses a type of jazz and Black folk rhythm in his pieces, while ignoring the classical form of poetry. He wrote many literary genres including poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. “Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties.”(“Langston Hughes”). Langston Hughes believed that there should be equality between all ethnicities. He supported racial pride during the 1920s through his work of poems, plays, novels, and short stories. Hughes only talked about the African American race, because he believes that blacks and whites should live in peace with equal rights for everyone. Langston Hughes was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, an African American literary movement of the 1920s and 1930s (“Langston