The Poet Laureate of Harlem
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Langston Hughes was a famous African American poet during the Harlem Renaissance in the early 20th century. He openly wrote poems about the African American experience and used themes that expressed the joy, struggle, pain, and frustration of Black life. Hughes often faced criticism for his choice to write about ordinary Black people and use Black dialect and jazz/blues influences in his poetry. Some of his most notable poems include "The Weary Blues" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." Hughes traveled extensively and spent time living in Harlem, which was a cultural center for Black writers and artists at the time. He was recognized for his writings about Harlem with the title of "Poet Laureate of Harlem."
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anderson, Jervis. “Keats in Harlem.” Rev. of My Soul’s High Song: The collected Writings of Countee Cullen. by Gerald L. Early. New Republic 8 April 1991: 27-33. http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=12082745 (19 April 2006).
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“Countee Cullen.” Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Black Poets of the Twenties. Ed. Countee Cullen. New York: Citadel, 1993. 179.
Cullen, Countee. ”Yet Do I Marvel” The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair. 3rd edition. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 2003. 2 vols. 727.
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Hughes, Langston. “Goodbye Christ.” The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. Ed. Arnold Rampersad and David Roessel. New York: Random House, 1994. 166-7.
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Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987.
Primeau, Ronald. “Countee Cullen and Keats’s ‘Vale of Soul-Making.’” Papers on Language and Literature 12.1 (1976): 73-86. http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=7727016 (19 April 2006).
Ramazini, Jahan. Richard Ellmann, Robert O’Clair. Eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. 3rd edition. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 2003. 2 vols.
Rampersad, Arnold and David Roessel, eds. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Knopf, 2001.
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Primeau, Ronald. “Countee Cullen and Keats’s ‘Vale of Soul-Making.’” Papers on Language and Literature 12.1 (1976): 73-86. http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=7727016 (19 April 2006).
Ramazini, Jahan. Richard Ellmann, Robert O’Clair. Eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. 3rd edition. Vol. 1. New York: Norton, 2003. 2 vols.
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Hughes' poem describes a speaker listening to a blues musician play late at night in Harlem, capturing the mournful tone of blues music through repetition and inclusion of blues lyrics. The speaker depicts the blues musician swaying lazily to the music on a rickety stool and singing of loneliness and weariness. Hughes' poem uses the blues performance to give readers insight into the emotional state of African American blues artists during the Harlem Renaissance.
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The poem "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay memorializes the bloody summer of 1919 and encourages African Americans to face oppression bravely rather than cower in fear. McKay uses powerful imagery of being hunted animals to depict the dehumanization African Americans faced, but urges them to "die nobly" fighting back rather than as "hogs...in an inglorious spot." The message is one of resisting through courage and dignity rather than submission.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic movement that took place in Harlem, New York in the 1920s. It involved a flowering of African American literature, art, music, and social thought. Key figures included Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Duke Ellington. The movement arose from the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities like New York and the development of Harlem as the center of African American cultural life.
Harlem renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a period in the 1920s and early 1930s when African American writers, artists, musicians, and thinkers flourished in Harlem, New York. Many African Americans migrated north during the Great Migration to escape Jim Crow laws and racial violence in the south, finding work and community in Harlem. During this time, jazz music emerged as a new American art form and influential African American authors wrote about the black experience. The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of black cultural and intellectual life that had a significant impact on American culture overall.
Harlem renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement that took place in Harlem, New York from the 1920s to the 1930s. During this period, Harlem became the center of African American cultural, social, and political life. The Harlem Renaissance saw an explosion of African American art, literature, music, theater, and politics that celebrated African American life and promoted racial pride and equality. Some of the notable figures of this movement included Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen in literature as well as jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
Essay On Langston Hughes
During the Harlem Renaissance period in the early 20th century, African Americans explored their cultural identity and created art that expressed the black experience. Langston Hughes was a notable figure of this time who gave voice to African Americans through his poetry. His background and experiences with racism and traveling influenced the themes in his poetry, like his poem "Dream Variations" which discusses the desire for equality and the reality of hard work for the average African American.
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Langston Hughes was a prominent writer and activist during the Harlem Renaissance. He was born in 1902 to mixed-race parents and was raised primarily by his grandmother, who greatly influenced his writing style. Hughes attended Columbia University but dropped out due to racial prejudice and later earned his bachelor's degree. He was drawn to Harlem as it was a center of African American culture during the Renaissance. Hughes used his poetry and writing to protest segregation and uplift the African American experience, becoming a leader in the Harlem Renaissance movement. Some of his most popular works included poems like "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" and "Dream Deferred," as well as his novel Not Without Laughter.
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Langston Hughes was an influential African American poet and writer born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902. He had a difficult childhood, moving between relatives' homes after his parents separated. Hughes graduated high school in 1920 and enrolled in college but dropped out to pursue writing. He traveled extensively in the 1920s before receiving his bachelor's degree in 1929. Hughes was a pivotal figure of the Harlem Renaissance and was awarded the Spingarn Medal in 1960 for his achievements as an African American writer. He died in 1967 in New York.
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The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic movement in the 1920s centered in Harlem, New York. Artists created bold portraits reflecting African American life and jazz-inspired works. Popular dances like swing emerged and venues like the Savoy Ballroom and Cotton Club hosted musicians like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughn. Literature was a primary focus, with writers like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston gaining recognition. Their works explored African American roots and realities of discrimination. The Great Depression weakened supporting organizations and led to the decline of the Harlem Renaissance.
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The document discusses the Harlem Renaissance, which was a period in the 1920s when there was a flowering of African American social thought, art, music, dance, theater and literature. It took place in Harlem, New York City, where many black Americans had migrated for new economic and intellectual opportunities. Key figures like Langston Hughes helped redefine black culture and identity, and their work helped lay the foundation for future civil rights movements. Hughes was a pivotal writer who realistically portrayed black life through his poetry, stories and plays.
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The Poet Laureate of Harlem
- 2. EARLY LIFE LANGSTON HUGHES WAS BORN IN 1902 He was one of the most famous literary figures during the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes openly chose to write poems about African American people. The themes in his poems express the joy, struggle, pain, and frustration of African American life.
- 3. harlem What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten mean? Or crust and sugar over – Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
- 4. Early career Hughes was often criticized for his poetry. He Chose to write about the lives of plain African American people. He used African American dialect in many of his poems and borrowed heavily from the style and rhythm of jazz and blues music.
- 5. The Weary Blues (Excerpt) Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway… He did a lazy sway… To the tune o’ those Weary Blues With his ebony hands on each Ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool He played that sad raggy tune like a musical fool. Sweet Blues!
- 6. travels Hughes traveled extensively. He Visited Mexico, Holland, France, West Africa, and many other cities and countries.
- 7. The negro speaks of rivers I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I’ve known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
- 8. In 1921, Hughes moved to New York where he Attended Columbia University. At the time, Harlem was a hotbed for African American Writers, singers, dancers, actors, musicians, Artists, and intellectuals.
- 9. dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-wing bird That cannot fly Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow
- 10. Hughes writings about Harlem earned him the title “Poet Laureate of Harlem.” Poet Laureates are recognized for their works which reflect a country or a location.