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...?An Essay about the Three Poems of Langston Hughes In the poem “April Rain Song,” Hughes shows deep is his love about nature, the appreciation to thepeacefulness it could bring to the emotions, and the freedom of touching the rain. April rain is a poem primarily tackles about the rain. The writer wants the reader to feel how it is like to feel the rain, see the beauty transparent raindrops as it falls, imagine how amazing the rain, and wonder in it as a part of the creation. The writer is trying to convey each of the reader the beauty of experiencing the rain, the strong emotion of the delightful feelings and most probably the freedom of...
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...of the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry. She declares this indebt ness by taking the title of the play from the famous poem by Langston Hughes quoted above. Till this play the blacks were given only small and comic roles in theatre largely as ethnic stereotypes. Thus this play for the first time brings the life of the black family to the centre stage. She uses black vernacular through out the play, which is usually considered as an inferior shade of the language, by the whites. The play deals with the same concern that Du Bois raises, of the black identity in an oppressive white majority society. It deals with the issues and conflicts such as poverty, discrimination and...
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...8 April Poetry Normal words are simply incapable of inspiring the same feelings in ones heart as poetry does. This essay is a comparisonbetween two relatively contemporary poems, The Negro Speaks of the River by Langston Hughes and The Secretary Chant by Marge Piercy. The poem by Langston Hughes is in homage to the depth and strength of the soul of the black people. It was published in 1921, when black people were still referred to as Negroes and were subjected to racist prejudice. Langston Hughes wrote the...
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...Comparison and Contrast of Two Poems Written by Langston HughesLangston Hughes wrote poetry that expressed his experience as a black man from the South. He writes of home but with the knowledge of its deep flaws and harsh histories. In his poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” he discusses his belongingness and place in history with indications of his connections to his origins. In “The South” he writes of his very flawed home, also discussing something of his origins in relationship to how he both loves and hates the place where he has grown into...
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...Your Number 12 May 2007 Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was a member of the New Negro Renaissance, agroup of black writers living in Harlem in the late 1920s, which eventually gave birth to the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Missouri in 1902, Hughes's love of writing became apparent early in life. His first poem was published in 1921; he published his first collection, The Weary Blues, when he was twenty-three. Embracing his culture, he "steeped himself in the language, music, and feeling of the common people of Harlem. Proud of his folk heritage, Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his...
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The poem also made me feel sad to think that this hope and power, despite such wisdom and proof of the worth of the African American, has not been fully realized, so many years later. Langston Hughes dedicated the poem to the historian and activist, W. E. B. Du Bois, and wrote it when only 17 years old, yet it shows a deep soul and a wise mind, full of ancient wisdom. I would be happy to stand beside such a man.
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Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers. English 1102, Compositions and
Modern English 11 (8th Ed.). Boston, Mass. Pearson Custom...
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...Three Poems of Langston Hughes
In the poem “April Rain Song,” Hughes shows deep is his love about nature, the appreciation to the peacefulness it could bring to the emotions, and the freedom of touching the rain.
April rain is a poem primarily tackles about the rain. The writer wants the reader to feel how it is like to feel the rain, see the beauty transparent raindrops as it falls, imagine how amazing the rain, and wonder in it as a part of the creation. The writer is trying to convey each of the reader the beauty of experiencing the rain, the strong emotion of the delightful feelings and most probably the freedom of feeling and...
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