Langston Hughes Poetry
Poetry are stanzas filled with art full of meaning whether it's rhyming or a short poem. Poetry is a detailed story in just a few lines, that takes you through someone's journey. What someone has to say in poetry can simply be read and understood in a simple stanza that can relate or connect to others in various ways.These epic poems are for everybody's read, as well as to comprehend, and appreciate.Since poetry is a written form of art, the once famous Langston Hughes takes us through his major life experience. Not only are the poems well known, but the significance of what represents them is what makes the words come alive. Recently reading two well known poems of his, I noticed the commonality of how the poet was speaking on life struggles
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He mentions, “ I am the darker brother/ They send me to eat in the kitchen/When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong” (Hughes 458). He explains what the time period is like in just a few simple lines. The goal of this poem is to explain, how he was treated but how he strongly believed that one day in life the circumstances that Africans lived under would change as long as he believed. He then goes on to recite a powerful line about this change and how he will get the satisfaction. “Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table when company comes/ Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then” (Hughes 458). When he expresses this he is disclosing to the world, how one day that perception and inferior attitude would all change and fade away. How, being African American in America would be acknowledged and get to be typical to look darker. Having melanin or being a certain pigmentation shouldn't cause someone to be less worthy of having the same opportunities, no matter what skin color. We all are American and just want to be accepted just like among all the other races that reside in …show more content…
Each description is so powerfull; enough to make the reader use all their senses of feeling what these discarded dreams Hughes explores even if they aren't from the era he is discussing. As indicated by Langston Hughes, a tossed dream does not just leave. Truth be told, it experiences a procedure sort of like a cycle that in the long run transforms into a physical condition of rot. Hughes does not allude to a particular dream or objective he had. In my point of view, he recommends that African Americans couldn't dream or seek to awesome things, in light of the environment that once encompasses them. Regardless of the possibility that they do hope against hope, their end-all strategies will weep for so long that they wind up blurring without end or not with-standing destructing from the plan and or goal.
Langston Hughes statements are always powerful and distinctive. The honorable words he states are, “He too can sing America” (Hughes 443). That interpretations represents how he is feeling patriotic about being American just as well as a caucasian American. These examples suggest the basic routine of racial isolation within his lifetime. African Americans were faced with discrimination in almost every aspect of their lives in this time period. All he hoped for was to see desegregation during his lifetime and to live life
He mentions, “ I am the darker brother/ They send me to eat in the kitchen/When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong” (Hughes 458). He explains what the time period is like in just a few simple lines. The goal of this poem is to explain, how he was treated but how he strongly believed that one day in life the circumstances that Africans lived under would change as long as he believed. He then goes on to recite a powerful line about this change and how he will get the satisfaction. “Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table when company comes/ Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then” (Hughes 458). When he expresses this he is disclosing to the world, how one day that perception and inferior attitude would all change and fade away. How, being African American in America would be acknowledged and get to be typical to look darker. Having melanin or being a certain pigmentation shouldn't cause someone to be less worthy of having the same opportunities, no matter what skin color. We all are American and just want to be accepted just like among all the other races that reside in …show more content…
Each description is so powerfull; enough to make the reader use all their senses of feeling what these discarded dreams Hughes explores even if they aren't from the era he is discussing. As indicated by Langston Hughes, a tossed dream does not just leave. Truth be told, it experiences a procedure sort of like a cycle that in the long run transforms into a physical condition of rot. Hughes does not allude to a particular dream or objective he had. In my point of view, he recommends that African Americans couldn't dream or seek to awesome things, in light of the environment that once encompasses them. Regardless of the possibility that they do hope against hope, their end-all strategies will weep for so long that they wind up blurring without end or not with-standing destructing from the plan and or goal.
Langston Hughes statements are always powerful and distinctive. The honorable words he states are, “He too can sing America” (Hughes 443). That interpretations represents how he is feeling patriotic about being American just as well as a caucasian American. These examples suggest the basic routine of racial isolation within his lifetime. African Americans were faced with discrimination in almost every aspect of their lives in this time period. All he hoped for was to see desegregation during his lifetime and to live life