Langston Hughes" early life prepared him well to write about humanity, for as a child and young man he lived in different places and met many different kinds of people. ... The now 14 teen year-old Hughes was elected class poet and giving the opportunity to give the graduation speech at the elementary school. ... The city on the other hand offered many exciting diversions to the impressionable young man form the Midwest. ... The best poems in The Weary Blues group themselves around the themes of pride and protest. ... By fishing in all corners of what he called the "big sea" of literature Hu...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"White Man- is a direct attack on the white man's violations against the African-Americans. ... "White Man! White Man! ... You are the smart guy, White Man! ... The universal theme of racism and race relations defined all the important work of Langston Hughes....

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The first volume, The Big Sea, written in an episodic, lightly comic manner, made virtually no mention of his leftist sympathies, and I Wonder As I Wander written in 1956 was Hughes's much-admired second volume of autobiography. ...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School