The_Poetry_Of_Langston_Hughes

The Poetry Of Langston Hughes The Poetry of Langston Hughes The poetry of Langston Hughes was a great inspiration to people everywhere. It publicized a hunger for freedom in the hearts of many Americans who had been oppressed by the government. Through his poetry he gave people the courage to stand up for their rights. African Americans could finally take a stand against oppression because they developed a sense of pride for whom they were, and wanted to see justice demonstrated in society. Langston Hughes’s poems, “Children’s Rhymes”, “Cross”, and “Dream Deferred” express his dream of liberty and justice achieving a better life for African Americans during the 1920s. Hughes’s poem, “Children’s Rhymes” conveys a sense of inequality even children felt, as a line in the poem suggests. “Lies written down for white folks ain’t for us a-tall: Liberty and Justice Huh! For all'”(Brown 1). This line especially speaks of the obvious contradiction of the American promise of liberty and justice (Brown 1). It also states the political disadvantages of African American people at the time (Brown1). These children are rebelling by labeling all government officials and white people as liars, when they say that all American people are people, langston, dream, poem, hughes’s, hughes, african, justice, americans, being, because, white, line, american, society, poetry, liberty, harlem, feelings, better, time, stand, speaks, rights, new, different, about, world, served, sense, rhymes, poems, oppressed, one, never