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.
