Besides Toomer, some of the important writers of the time can be listed as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. Claude MacKay's "America" is a poem about the African Americans" life and the bitterness of that life resulting from the prejudice and hatred of whites" against them. ... What attracted my attention is MacKay's general tendency of the pattern of rhyming as "abab cdcd efef gg" in both of these poems. ... So naturally, I didn't care much for the Waldorf-Astoria.)" said Langston Hughes in "The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughe...

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And this is the way I look at the poems and short stories like Langston Hughes or Zara Neal Hurston wrote. ... To invent something new or just the feeling of being part of something special makes the lives of people like Aaron Douglas or Langston Hughes so interesting and creative. ... And it was Langston Hughes who said on the editorial page of FIRE !! ... were writers like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, John Preston Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett and Wallace Thurman, who edited FIRE !!. ... Where is the point that stories like "The Wedding Day" by Gwendol...

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., Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes are some of the people that spoke and fought for the "All men are created equal" vision. ... Langston Hughes was not political, but sought to get his views across through poetry. ... I wish you wouldn't read you poems to whit folks. ...

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The Definition of America as seen in the Poetry of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay America is a place that many people associate with equality, opportunity and the promise of a good life. ... Claude McKay and Langston Hughes have similar views of America which deviate from the "utopian" symbol that this country has attempted to portray. ... Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too" and Claude McKay's poem "America" depict a more realistic view of American society. ... McKay's poem "America" depicts a feeling of loss. ... Hughes uses the same idea of oppression in America ye...

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After reading and discussing the poems: "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus, "I Too" by Langston Hughes, and "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, I realize that culture is all around us. ... Emma Lazarus, Walt Whitman, and Langston Hughes help culture to matter in America. ...

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Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes The Poem "Let America Be America Again" is a very emotional and moving poem. ... As the poem goes on it shows more and more the cruelty and hardships certain people would have had to experience in that time and how hard it was for these obstacles to be overcome. The poem speaks of America's dream for freedom and for all to be equal. ... The poem speaks of young men who dream of growing up and making their own profit but finding the world an "ancient endless chain of profit, power, gain, of grab the land". ... The charact...

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