Category: Langston Hughes

Abstract Literature is a word that had reflected an interest in the world of reality as well as imagination. In the term subaltern describes the lower social classes and the other social groups displaced to the margins of a society in social, political, or other hierarchy. It can also mean someone who has been marginalized…

How does one attain success? There are numerous factors that influence how someones life turns out. One of the most important is belief. Belief is defined by Webster’s dictionary as a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing. Over the course of some of his…

Literature is the art or work of expressing thoughts or feelings in language. Examples of literature include poetry, drama, non-fiction, fiction, etc. Do you ever notice that a myriad of literary works conveys ideas that are universal, though the works set in particular place and time? Two literary works to compare are Vagabonds by Langston…

Langston Hughes’s poem Theme for English B is a rhetorical prod about the life of African America during the time in United States history where racial segregation is an enforced law. The poem begins when the professor instructed the speaker to go home and write what is true for him. As the poet introduced his…

Langston Hughes, an influential literary artist, explore[d] the lives of African-Americans during the Harlem Renaissance (Mother to Son 177). Because he was black himself, Hughes could write about his first-hand experience of the tacks and splinters associated with discrimination, and provide the privileged with his perspective (Miller 432). Hughes reveals the impediments blacks faced by…