What Qualities That Make A Langston Hughes Work...

ENG 341 Studies in Literary Genres Final Paper Andria Reynolds CHB 431DS August 29, 2014 Bruce Hunter There are certain qualities that make a Langston Hughes’ work memorable and timeless. Whether it is the topics that choose to write about or types of characters he chose to portray. Imagery provides the reader with a visual picture of what the writer is trying to convey, rhythm gives the story its beat, and the metaphor gives the work its deeper meaning. All three components can always be found in a Langston Hughes piece. Most of my own poems are racial in theme and treatment, derived from the life I know. In many of them, I try to grasp and hold some of the meanings and rhythms of jazz. I am as sincere as I know how to be in these poems and yet after every reading I answer questions like these from my own people: Do you think Negroes should always write about Negroes? I wish you wouldn t read some of your poems to white folks. How do you find anything interesting in a place like a cabaret? Why do you write about black people? You aren t black. What makes you do so many jazz poems? But jazz to me is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America; the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul—the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile. Langston Hughes The first to recognize the potential of the blues as writtenShow MoreRelatedEssay Art Life of Langston Hughes5893 Words   |  24 Pagesthe fight against racism. One man used his art and the power of words to bring forth the issues of injustice suffered in America, he was Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was a Negro Writer, born at the turn of the century in 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His ancestry included three major race groups, however, he lived and was identified as a Negro or Colored (Hughes referred to himself as colored or Negro, because those were the terms used to refer to African-Americans in this era). He spent most