4. LANGSTON HUGHES
Born: Feb 1,1902 in USA
Career: African-American writer and poet
Works: Poems- The Negro Speaks of River,
The Weary Blues, Fine Clothes to the Jews etc.
Not Without Laughter was his notable novel
The Ways of the White Folks was a collection of his short
stories.
Died: May 22, 1967
5. Socio- Political Background of the poem
Langston Hughes being an Black American poet,
had a political dream regarding the liberation of
his own race. The broken-winged bird in the first
and the frozen field in the second stanza of the
poem signify the plight of the blacks in America
against which they have to safeguard themselves by
holding fast the wings of emancipation and
imagination.
8. MESSAGE
One should try hard to transform
the frozen field of our barren lives
into sunny spring-field by keeping
our wings of optimistic dreams
alive.
