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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes's "Theme For English B" describes the contrast between the speaker, a young African-American man from Harlem, and his instructor, an older white man. In turn, this contrast is part...
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Langston Hughes
In the poem, Langston Hughes creates a contrast between a thematic project staged on a train, which traveled the United States beginning in 1947 and had no African American personnel, and ordinary...
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Langston Hughes
TPCASTT is an acronym that stands for title, paraphrase, connotation, attitude, shift, title, and theme. When we first consider the title, "I look at the world," we might make the assumption that...
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Langston Hughes
In literary terms, looking or moving up generally alludes to improving one’s position. In fact, this can be extended beyond literature to general spoken English. People use the term “moving up” to...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born in 1902 and spent his youth in the Midwest, then spent a couple of years in Mexico with his father. After moving to New York in 1921 to attend Columbia University, he...
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Langston Hughes
Although Langston Hughes (1902–1967) is strongly associated with Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance movement, he actually lived in that area of New York City for less than half his life—in the early...
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Langston Hughes
The term "cultural background," is such a wide one that it would be reasonable to say that every writer in the world has been influenced by his or her cultural background. Only a Russian aristocrat...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was revolutionary in addressing his work to black people. There are two elements to this this point. The first is obvious: Hughes's work was directed primarily towards a black...
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Langston Hughes
I always think it is worthwhile to examine how a particular author's work reflects the historical era in which they lived. Langston Hughes's work was central to the Harlem Renaissance, which gave...
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Langston Hughes
Poet Langston Hughes was a cardinal figure during the Harlem Renaissance. So, in analyzing Hughes's humility, let's look at two of his most famous poems: "I, Too" and "Let America Be America...
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Langston Hughes
It sounds like you are constructing a paper that explains how Langston Hughes's work changed his society and its views. With that topic, here are some things that might be helpful to include in an...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes remains an enigmatic figure, one of the best-known poets of the twentieth century, who was nonetheless uncomfortable with fame and protective of his private life. While he may or...
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Langston Hughes
Both Hughes and da Vinci reshaped the societal expectations of possibility through their works. Langston Hughes integrated his racial identity into the art he created, bringing a new consciousness...
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Langston Hughes
Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) never married or had children. He was a very private person, and there has been much speculation about his personal life. Although accused of...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is one of the most important writers in American history. His work became a hallmark of the Harlem Renaissance, an explosion of intellectual, social, and artistic work by African...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was a poet whose writing played a critical role in the Harlem Renaissance. There is a lot that can be learned from both his life and his writing, but I will provide an overview of...
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Langston Hughes
"The Pushcart Man" and "Drama for Winter Night" are two of my favorite works by Langston Hughes. I think I can help you find lots of ways in which the individual is both embedded and alienated in...
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Langston Hughes
In this humorous poem by poet Langston Hughes, a woman named Alberta, who works as a household servant, speaks in the first person about the duties she is required to perform for her employer, whom...
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Langston Hughes
Hughes' poem appears here: In the morning the city Spreads its wings Making a song In stone that sings. In the evening the city Goes to bed Hanging lights About its head. The poem is...
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Langston Hughes
Hughes's poems influenced the Harlem Renaissance for two reasons. First, because he was elemental in exposing the reality of conditions for African-Americans in the 40s and 50s. But perhaps even...
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Langston Hughes
In his poem titled “Bad Man,” Langston Hughes uses a number of literary devices to help contribute to the effectiveness of the poem. Among these devices are the following: Simple, colloquial...
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Langston Hughes
This brief essay by Langston Hughes is in many ways a manifesto for the Harlem Renaissance, the movement by young African American artists, writers, and musicians in the 1920s. Hughes's argument is...
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Langston Hughes
There's no one correct way to compare two pieces of literature, so let me just draw your attention to some of the main avenues you could take your discussion. From there, you can develop your own...
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Langston Hughes
I assume that you mean the poem "In Time of Silver Rain" by Langston Hughes. This is a simple poem that describes the beauty and joy of springtime. Some of the images in this poem are: a) Green...
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Langston Hughes
The first and most obvious device that the author use is repetition. This is obvious when the speaker, Simple, consistently uses the word 'black' as a reference to the point he wishes to make, as...
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Langston Hughes
The poet's point of view in the poem is someone who is voicing the need for reality to be constructed as it should be as opposed to how it is. One can even presume that it is Hughes, himself,...
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Langston Hughes
Most definitely Langston Hughes and Alice Walker share common themes. Consider all of their works - they are Black Americans, writing about exactly that. Although Alice Walker wasn't technically...
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Langston Hughes
Langson Hughes's thesis in his essay "The Negro Artists and the Racial Mountain" is that the African-American artist cannot create true art, nor escape racism, if the African American is afraid of...
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Langston Hughes
In Langston Hughes's short story "Berry," the African-American boy named Milberry Jones, called Berry for short, is instantly treated like an "other" the moment he arrives to work in the kitchen at...
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Langston Hughes
The title of the poem is ironic because the poem describes the author being so miserable in life that he attempts to drown himself in a cold river, and then contemplates jumping off of a high...
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Langston Hughes
In both of these Langston Hughes’ poems, Hughes embodies various personas to illustrate the problems African Americans faced in housing discrimination. In “Ballad of the Landlord,” the speaker is a...
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Langston Hughes
The subject of this poem actually is the conflict between the two voices. The speaker is "Madame" and she is in conflict with "the Rent Man." He is there to collect rent but she refuses to pay....
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Langston Hughes
Statistics show that the account of African-American poverty Langston Hughes gives in his one-act play "Soul Gone Home" is still very true today.In the play, as Ronnie, who has just died of...
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Langston Hughes
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that focuses on their similarities. A metaphor does not use the words "like" or "as" in the way a simile, which also compares two things, does. A...
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Langston Hughes
Milberry had learned to solve problems through hard work. He had made a decision that he was not going to be bothered by other people's prejudices because he had suffered too much and was not...
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Langston Hughes
I think that the context of the poem's writing has to filter into how the poem is read and understood. It is no accident that in the midst of the struggle for Civil Rights, Hughes selects a topic...
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Langston Hughes
Both of the poems, Langston Hughes' "Little Old Letter," and James Weldon Johnson's "Since You Went Away," deal with the subject of loss. However, the poems are very different in tone. Whereas...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes is the greatest poet of the Harlem Renaissance. His poems, especially "Dreams" and "Harlem," are often anthologized in high school literature textbooks. At the time Hughes was...
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Langston Hughes
Both Langston Hughes's poem titled "Refugee in America" and the speech written in 1927 by the Grand Council Fire of American Indians titled "The First Americans" share the theme of oppression of a...
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Langston Hughes
"Soul Gone Home" is a one-act play by Langston Hughes. The play concerns a young boy who has just died, and his mother, who grieves for him. In the course of the play, the son returns in spirit to...
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Langston Hughes
Personification is a type of figurative language in which an author gives inanimate objects human characteristics. In his poem "As I Grew Older," Langston Hughes uses a couple instances of...
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Langston Hughes
The poem is written with repetition of the word sun in order to evoke emotion around that word. In this way as you understand the poem you then relate it to the word sun. The poem is also using...
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Langston Hughes
In Langston Hughes’ short story “Thank You M’am,” Roger shows that he can be trusted after making the mistake of attempting to snatch Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones’ purse. Roger, the young...
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Langston Hughes
The first line of "Thank You Ma'm is a hyperbole. "She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails." This is an obvious over stated. She...
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Langston Hughes
There is no way this question can be answered in the space given here. I can identify several of his poems and how they fit the themes. You might have to go back to the poems and find the lines...
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Langston Hughes
Luella Bates Washington Jones, in Thank You M'am, is a character who reveals contradictory traits. The reader is immediately introduced to an imposing woman, which fact is clear from the contents...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes'' short poem "Dreams" is a lyric poem, yes, but I'm not sure that I'd call it free verse. Read the poem slowly out loud: Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged...
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Langston Hughes
Since the speaker of Langston Hughes's poem "Dreams" is not identified, one might interpret that the speaker of the poem is Hughes himself. In the poem, Hughes urges his readers to hold on to their...
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Langston Hughes
The theme Langston Hughes's poem "Dream Deferred" shares in common with Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech is the idea that, although racism shrivels and cripples humanity, it also,...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes's "The Ballad of the Landlord" is told from the point of view of a black tenant living in a run-down apartment. The tenant asks the landlord to fix his roof because it's "sprung a...
