Langston_Hughes_Imagery

Langston Hughes Imagery Langston Hughes was a poet that lived from 1902-1967. He was a very distinguished poet of the Harlem Renaissance, the great out pouring of African-American art. The poetry of Langston Hughes is very different, yet it held the reader's attention. As a poet, he defines his role as a poet. Hughes has a very unconventional style, and language, though he gives his intended messages in the same way as the poets of the past have done. Langston Hughes created most of his works in or about Harlem, New York. His poetry was almost musical. It had a distinct rhythm and a flow to the words contained in the lines. He spoke of the issues and life of the black race and its plight "They send me to eat in the kitchen /When company comes/ But I laugh/…/And grow strong." (Lauter, 1605). The blues was such a prominent part of his life that he dropped out of Columbia University after two semesters to pursue the nightlife of Harlem. Though at times Langston was a radical writer and addressed the issues with force, he also expressed great pride in being black and having a culture such as it. He was very proud and his dream, harlem, poem, deferred, hughes, blacks, rampersand, people, poetry, one, anger, theme, new, image, first, each, blues, black, very, reader, out, lines, line, lauter, langston, island, dreams, continues, comment, around, about, town, though, same, poet