Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes are just two examples, of many, why New Criticism should be disputed. ... In "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" Walt Whitman draws on many life experiences that provide both realism and conviction to the poem. ... The role that Whitman's background has in this poem is a major one. ... Whitman did not like or believe in slavery. ... Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes wrote about the tragedies that they felt existe...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

The American song can be different because it can explore so many different aspects of the world, the soul, what it means 'to be' – look at Walt Whitman's various poems, all songs of himself yet bursting to the world and to his god. ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For hundreds of years people have been hated, tortured, and even killed because of their ethic background, religion, and/or race. People have been treated with animosity as a result of being black, gay, Jewish, mentally challenged, lower class, Indian, etcetera. Langston Hughes, a famous black aut...

• Word Count: 1559
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Fine Clothes to the Jew may remain in relationship to African American poetry in a manner similar to Walt Whitman's 1855 release of Leaves of Grass stands in relationship to white American verse, or to the verse of the country all in all. ...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

(www.falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm) Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ...

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

Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School