For all the writers and artists from Harlem, liberty had its importance, because they could talk about their experiences and also about the differences between the cities of the north and the rural south where injustice was still in practice. .
Langston Hughes was exploring a new style of writing, which can be considered as a kind of modernism in the beginning of the century in the Harlem Renaissance period. He introduced a new form to write poetry: "the blues form in his poetry places him in the modernist tradition" (Rampersad). For the first time he held two forms of expression, writing and music, to express himself in his poetry. The Blues was an African American music played for many years in the south and in way singers were expressing themselves. Through the Blues, L. Hughes interpreted his feelings and how the people were living in the South; this was the first step in the resurrection of black poetry. .
Through his poems, Langston Hughes describes his community, which was still in the south of the United States. By wanting to help everyone to remember their past, such as in the poem Children's Rhymes "Liberty and Justice For all?"(Diesman), Hughes illustrates that not a long time ago Liberty and Justice were illusions for Afro-Americans. Furthermore, Langston Hughes loved Harlem and described it in his writing but also absorbed the rhythms of the Blues and the Jazz in his poetry. During the 1930s and the 1940s, Hughes was still writing in favor of the poor and south black people. None of his writing was on white's culture or life style, but just on the poverty and the injustice that were suffering the black community. .
In Daybreak in Alabama he makes the amalgams between his poem and the music that he would like to compose, "When I get to be a composer I"m gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama- (Hughes 586). Here in his poem he considers his self as almost a composer of blues music, and plays with the rhymes and the rhythms as a musician.
