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 Langston Hughes Hughes’s poems have a common theme: the experience of being black. He is a poet of the Harlem Rennisance. As a child, he had no real family.Instead he was passed around between extended family and friends.
“Dream Variations” One of Hughes greatest works is written in a structure that copies the repetitions of American blues music, and it is aimed, as many of his works were, primarily at children. “Dream Variations” imitates the overall structure of blues music: the first, second, and fourth lines of each stanza parallel each other in that they each have four syllables, while the third is extended, longer, building to an emotional climax. Hughes was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance, an artistic movement of the 1920s and 1930s, which brought the New York African-American arts community into prominence.
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Below are links to Famous Poets and Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/modern_us_poetry/98313 |
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