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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
Literary devices are the tools an author uses--such as foreshadowing, imagery, hyperbole, characterization, and metaphor, to name a few--that provide the reader with details and bring the text to...
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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 is probably one of Hughes' most powerful works. The structure of it is four stanza-ed poem. The first stanza consists of an instructor's words, while the last one is a line consisting of the...
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes's short story "Thank You, Ma'am" begins with a boy named Roger trying to steal a purse from a large woman named Mrs. Jones. The boy fails in his attempt to steal the purse, and Mrs....
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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
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
The poem “Mother to Son”, by Langston Hughes, is an uplifting, hopeful poem about never giving up. The main symbolism in the poem is when Mother compares her life to a staircase. She says,...
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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
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
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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
A literary “theme” can take different forms. It can be the dominating idea or ideas of a text, but it can also be what the writer wishes to say about that idea—his message or moral, if you...
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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
In this short story, Thank you Ma'am by Langston Hughes, the reader is introduced to what will definitely be a "no nonsense" kind of lady, "When I get through with you, sir, you are going to...
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Langston Hughes
A stout, strong woman, Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones has seen much of life herself and now takes what happens to her "in stride" as she displays no surprise or distress when the boy attempts...
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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
Firstly, one should ask what Hughes perspective was before his so-called salvation and how this had changed. We learn that before the revival service he was, as he calls it, 'a sinner' and that his...
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Langston Hughes
1. During the 1920s while the South maintained its Jim Crow Laws, massive numbers of black men, women, and children migrated to the North. In fact, in the 1920s nearly 200,000 African-Americans...
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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...
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Langston Hughes
I think he's trying to say a few things: He's trying to say that at some level people of different races are not that different. But at the same time, he's not at all sure that what's true for him...
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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
I just answered a question concerning "Salvation" that might be helpful to this question. With regards to how time passes, the essay begins a few weeks before an important revival meeting at...
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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
In "Salvation," Hughes tells us about the revival meeting through the voice of his 13-year-old, or almost 13-year-old, self. Throughout the essay he stays tightly within this 13-year-old...
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Langston Hughes
The primary device that Langston Hughes employs in "I, Too" is allusion: a reference to another work of art. Hughes's opening line, "I, too, sing America," is an allusion to Walt Whitman's famous...
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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
Langston Hughes’ poem “Theme for English B” is a thought provoking poem. When first approached, the poem seems to be for the black reader; however, it really speaks to the white man....
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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
No, the teacher in Hughes's "Theme for English B" does not appear to be racist. Rather, the professor at Columbia ("this college on the hill above Harlem") where the speaker is the "only colored...
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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
One significant difference between the imagery and language in Langston Hughes' "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and Alain Locke's essay "The New Negro" is seen with respect to content and theme. For...
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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
"Mother" compares life to stairs, and contrasts her life (or stairs) against that of a "crystal stair," which, in this poem, becomes a symbol of luxury and ease. The smooth delicacy of crystal is...
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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...
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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,...
