Hughes ' development as a poet during the Harlem …show more content…
In the essay “To Negro Writer” He spoke to the Negro population in regards to exposing what was really going on in those times. He speaks to Negro writers, saying to “seek to unite”, with the “white masses” to make peace. His message was to the “Negro masses”. He wants to inspire confidence in his reader. Letting the Negro masses know their lives are just as important as the next. Hughes speaks of exposing war. They considered it to be a privilege for the Negro masses to join the American League and fight for the “Nobel Red, White and Blue”. Although at that time they Americans did not practice equality for one and all. He saluted the white man, referring to him as being “ignorant/nigger”, for constantly creating propaganda. Referring to the white man as being simple minded. Only writing “about the moon”, or as in an earlier reading “roses”. Lloyd Brown argues that Langston Hughes ' poetry deals with an