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An Analysis of Robert Frost's Stopping By Woods

This paper analyzes one of Frost's most famous works, which many critics interpret as Frost's own longing for death. However the ...

American Experience in the Poems of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

Harlem Renaissance and Poet Langston Hughes

In seven pages the life of Langston Hughes and his poetic contributions to the Harlem Renaissance are examined. Five sources are ...

American Literature Overview

In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...

Langston Hughes' 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers'

In five pages this paper analyzes the structure, meaning, and themes of Langston Hughes' poem 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers.' Four ...

Personal Undertones in Frost's Poem, Fire and Ice

This paper examines Frost's short poem, Fire and Ice. The author examines themes of alienation and destruction, and argues that t...

'On the Road' by Langston Hughes

In one page the character of Sergeant featured in 'On the Road,' a short story by Langston Hughes, is analyzed. There is no bibli...

The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

African American Poetic Modernism

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

Biography of Langston Hughes

In eleven pages the 'explosions' in the life of Langston Hughes are explored in this insightful biography of the poet and novelist...

Poetic Reality in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes

In seven pages this paper discusses the poems 'We Real Cool, The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel' by Gwendolyn Brooks and...

Langston Hughes' Plays

In six pages this paper examines how the African American experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' plays Mulatto and Don't ...

'Coloredness' in the Poem Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

In five pages a poetic explication of Theme for English B examines how 'coloredness' is represented by poet Langston Hughes. Two ...

Disillusionment in 'Salvation' by Langston Hughes

In five pages the theme of disillusionment within the context of this work by Langston Hughes is analyzed. One source is cited in...

Miller, Hughes, and Baldwin

play about a man who had everything but was still unhappy. Then there was the infamous Death of a Salesman, which is clearly a sto...

Crucible of Character by Etheridge

who felt that the school needed to deal with admissions differently. When he presents Hughes poem, however, he is presenting it as...

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...

Lorraine Hansberry and Langston Hughes

expecting insurance money and all the characters have their hopes and dreams associated with it. One character who drives much of ...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

Harlem Renaissance Artists and the Influence Exerted by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

regrouping of the movement nine years later, in 1909, when it emerged as a much bigger and much more powerful movement known as th...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

Langston Hughes

what happens when someone has to push aside their dream. Hughes narrator asks, in relationship to a dream that has been set aside,...

Langston Hughes The Trumpet Player

golden tones he creates" (Davis 276). This "new Harlem" apparently changes more dramatically than we think; Schatt notes that the ...

Black Writers Speak Out

the best basketball players at Fisk sank his first ball right here at Lafayette County Training School" (Angelou 870). Angelou is ...

DEATH POEMS AND "SONG OF A DARK GIRL"

who has lost her lover in the south. We can assume this came from a lynching (as evidenced by the reference to "Dixie," which lync...

Joyce and Hughes/Loss in 2 Short Stories

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

Revolutionary Identity in the Works of Langston Hughes

to a revolutionary conception of identity that transcends race and ethnicity and focuses instead on the deep socially ingrained di...

Langston Hughes, An Overview

this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...

Symbolism, Theme and Perspective in Two Poems

has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...