Langston Hughes: A Pioneer for Black Writers
Langston Hughes,(1902-1967), was a great American writer He is
mostly known for his use of black folk rhythms and jazz in his poetry.
He was born in Joplin, Missouri, and educated at Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania. Hughes published his first poem, “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers,” in Crisis magazine in 1921. He studied at Columbia University
from 1921 to 1922 before serving on a ship to Africa. He then worked
for a time in Paris. After his return to the United …showed first 85 words of 550 total…
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about how he felt about blacks being excluded from the “American Dream”
and this poem symbolizes how a black person may have shown their
frustrations about the situations they went through.
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 meat?
Or crust and sugar over
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
