Langston Hughes was an American poet and a social activist. Missouri. He is one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry. He is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In these slides, his poem "Let America Be America Again" is disused, which highlights the disparity between the ideals of the American Dream and the harsh realities of life in America.

1. Langston Hughes
Let America Be America Again

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Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
Popular for his advanced, freestyle poetry style
Was a part of the literary movement named as
Harlem Renaissance
Hughes worked in fiction, dramatization, and film too.
Wrote many books, short stories, papers, and plays

3. Introduction to Poem
Written in 1935.
Focus on the American for identity, freedom, and equality of
American Black Citizens.
Consist of total eighty-six line.
Inspired by personal experience
Still today readers can relate the dream of America depicted in
this poem back then.

4. Dream of America
Freedom
Equality
THEME OF POEM
Fate of America

5. POEM LINES
“I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery’s scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,“
“[...] the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.”

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Analysis
America never truly being the America as
delineated in the American Dream.
Expression of asking for equal rights as
white people.
 Taking about dream of America that is a
reality where everyone has equal rights
and treated fairly

7. Poem lines
“I say it plain/ America never was
America to me,
And yet I swear this oath–
America will be”

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ANALYSIS
Dream of an America to be completely
meeting the desires.
America will become America once
more.
Positive thoughts and poet assures
America will see the sunshine.

9. CONCLUSION
An era of
extreme
distress and
depression
Published in
1936 Inequality
History and their
experiences
Exposed poverty,
starvation and
joblessness in
black community
In mid twentieth
century, Hughes
expounded on
black American
community
history.

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